From: akpm@osdl.org Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:51:56 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFS X-Git-Tag: v2.6.16-rc1~624 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0ad7b073eb7317e5afe0385b02dcb1d52a1eedf;p=pandora-kernel.git [PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFS ) From: Christoph Hellwig The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very different for different attribute namespaces. This patch moves as much as we can into the generic code. Currently all the major disk based filesystems duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems lack some or all of them. To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed