From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, 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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/14] xattr: switch xattr_permission() to switch statement
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:17:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wvsbhwgtkeq77v5p6nwctpybzrie7m37xd27j3hmpwgoyuoltv@7vqndacm67tr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260216-work-xattr-socket-v1-8-c2efa4f74cb7@kernel.org>
On Mon 16-02-26 14:32:04, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Simplify the codeflow by using a switch statement that switches on
> S_IFMT.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Looks good. Feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Honza
> ---
> fs/xattr.c | 18 +++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
> index c4db8663c32e..328ed7558dfc 100644
> --- a/fs/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/xattr.c
> @@ -152,12 +152,20 @@ xattr_permission(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *inode,
> * privileged users can write attributes.
> */
> if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) {
> - if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
> - 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))
> + switch (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) {
> + case S_IFREG:
> + break;
> + case S_IFDIR:
> + if (!(inode->i_mode & S_ISVTX))
> + break;
> + if (!(mask & MAY_WRITE))
> + break;
> + if (inode_owner_or_capable(idmap, inode))
> + break;
> return -EPERM;
> + default:
> + return xattr_permission_error(mask);
> + }
> }
>
> return inode_permission(idmap, inode, mask);
>
> --
> 2.47.3
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-27 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ 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
2026-02-27 14:43 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:31 ` [PATCH 02/14] xattr: add rhashtable-based simple_xattr infrastructure Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 14:43 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:31 ` [PATCH 03/14] shmem: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs with lazy allocation Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 14:48 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 04/14] kernfs: " Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:00 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 05/14] pidfs: adapt to rhashtable-based simple_xattrs Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:09 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-27 15:16 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 06/14] xattr: remove rbtree-based simple_xattr infrastructure Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:14 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 07/14] xattr: add xattr_permission_error() Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:15 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 08/14] xattr: switch xattr_permission() to switch statement Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:17 ` Jan Kara [this message]
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
2026-02-23 12:13 ` Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:20 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 10/14] xattr,net: support limited amount of extended attributes on sockfs sockets Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:25 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 11/14] xattr: support extended attributes on sockets Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:26 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 12/14] selftests/xattr: path-based AF_UNIX socket xattr tests Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:29 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 13/14] selftests/xattr: sockfs " Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:30 ` Jan Kara
2026-02-16 13:32 ` [PATCH 14/14] selftests/xattr: test xattrs on various socket families Christian Brauner
2026-02-27 15:32 ` Jan Kara
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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