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From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>,
	 Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	 linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	 netdev@vger.kernel.org, Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 07/14] xattr: add xattr_permission_error()
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:32:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-7-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-0-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org>

Stop repeating the ?: in multiple places and use a simple helper for
this.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 fs/xattr.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 64803097e1dc..c4db8663c32e 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ int may_write_xattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *inode)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int xattr_permission_error(int mask)
+{
+	if (mask & MAY_WRITE)
+		return -EPERM;
+	return -ENODATA;
+}
+
 /*
  * Check permissions for extended attribute access.  This is a bit complicated
  * because different namespaces have very different rules.
@@ -135,7 +142,7 @@ xattr_permission(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *inode,
 	 */
 	if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN)) {
 		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
-			return (mask & MAY_WRITE) ? -EPERM : -ENODATA;
+			return xattr_permission_error(mask);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -146,7 +153,7 @@ xattr_permission(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *inode,
 	 */
 	if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) {
 		if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
-			return (mask & MAY_WRITE) ? -EPERM : -ENODATA;
+			return xattr_permission_error(mask);
 		if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) && (inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX) &&
 		    (mask & MAY_WRITE) &&
 		    !inode_owner_or_capable(idmap, inode))

-- 
2.47.3



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-02-16 13:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-16 13:31 [PATCH 00/14] xattr: rework simple xattrs and support user.* xattrs on sockets Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:31 ` [PATCH 01/14] xattr: add rcu_head and rhash_head to struct simple_xattr Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:31 ` [PATCH 02/14] xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:31 ` [PATCH 03/14] shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 04/14] kernfs: " Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 05/14] pidfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 06/14] xattr: remove rbtree-based simple_xattr infrastructure Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 08/14] xattr: switch xattr_permission() to switch statement Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 09/14] xattr: move user limits for xattrs to generic infra Christian Brauner
2026-02-21  0:03   ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 10/14] xattr,net: support limited amount of extended attributes on sockfs sockets Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 11/14] xattr: support extended attributes on sockets Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 12/14] selftests/xattr: path-based AF_UNIX socket xattr tests Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 13/14] selftests/xattr: sockfs " Christian Brauner
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 14/14] selftests/xattr: test xattrs on various socket families Christian Brauner
2026-02-20  0:44 ` [PATCH 00/14] xattr: rework simple xattrs and support user.* xattrs on sockets Darrick J. Wong
2026-02-20  9:23   ` Christian Brauner
2026-02-21  0:14     ` Darrick J. Wong

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