Re: [PATCH 20/29] xfs: move the legacy xfs_attr_list to xfs_ioctl.c

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On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 10:41:40AM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 09:10:42AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > The old xfs_attr_list code is only used by the attrlist by handle
> > ioctl.  Move it to xfs_ioctl.c with its user.  Also move the
> > attrlist and attrlist_ent structure to xfs_fs.h, as they are exposed
> > user ABIs.
> 
> They weren't there already? Gross....
> 
> > They are used through libattr headers with the same name
> > by at least xfsdump.  Also document this relation so that it doesn't
> > require a research project to figure out.
> 
> Shouldn't these two structures get a check in xfs_ondisk.h to make sure
> that we don't accidentally break the structure size?

These aren't on-disk but syscall ABI structures, and they actually
differ in size on different architectures..



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