Re: [PATCH 07/39] vfs: export vfs_ioctl() to modules

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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:34:33PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:04:41PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> >> FS_IOC*
> >>
> >> Haven't looked deeply.  For now overlayfs just implements
> >> FS_IOC_{GET|SET}FLAGS because some of these flags are quite generic
> >> and implementing them on the overlay is easy.
> >>
> >> Yes, turning into a method makes sense.
> >
> > Do you want to do this or should I send a patch?
> 
> Do it.  You are much more familiar with regular fs that implement
> these ioctls.  Untangling overlap between FS_IOC_...FLAGS and
> FS_IOC_...XATTR looks "interesting".

Suggestion: have that go through ->setattr(); that's what
ATTR_ATTR_FLAG was supposed to be for, IIRC.
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