From: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>,
Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fs: add documentation to simple_xattr functions
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:31:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120905183133.461178345@napanee.usersys.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20120905183132.806473183@napanee.usersys.redhat.com
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Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
---
Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX | 3 ++
Documentation/filesystems/simple_xattr.txt | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 45 insertions(+)
Index: github/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX
===================================================================
--- github.orig/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX 2012-09-05 11:51:50.870969722 -0400
+++ github/Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX 2012-09-05 12:10:46.250211947 -0400
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@
- how to use the seq_file API
sharedsubtree.txt
- a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
+simple_xattr.txt
+ - description of extended attributes for memory backed filesystems
+ like tmpfs and cgroup filesystem.
spufs.txt
- info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
sysfs-pci.txt
Index: github/Documentation/filesystems/simple_xattr.txt
===================================================================
--- /dev/null 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ github/Documentation/filesystems/simple_xattr.txt 2012-09-05 12:10:46.250211947 -0400
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+Simple Extended Attributes for Memory Backed Filesystems Interface
+==================================================================
+
+Implements extended attributes storage using kernel memory. Users of these
+functions are strongly advised against allowing user or any other kind of
+extended attributes that can be manipulated by unprivileged users, since it'd
+be trivial to exhaust kernel memory.
+
+The filesystem implementation is responsible by storing a simple_xattrs
+structure for every directory and file and to implement setxattr() and
+getxattr() calls. Also, setxattr() should filter off by name the unsupported
+types.
+
+void simple_xattrs_init(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs)
+- Initializes a pre allocated structure
+
+void simple_xattrs_free(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs)
+- Frees up all the extended attributes and any resources allocated by
+ simple_xattrs_init
+
+struct simple_xattr *simple_xattr_alloc(const void *value, size_t size)
+- Allocates a extended attribute entry
+
+void simple_xattr_list_add(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs,
+ struct simple_xattr *new_xattr)
+int simple_xattr_remove(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name)
+- Adds and removes an extended attribute from the list
+
+int simple_xattr_get(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name,
+ void *buffer, size_t size);
+- Returns the value of an extended attribute searching by name
+
+int simple_xattr_set(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, const char *name,
+ const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
+- Sets a new value for a given extended attribute. Specifying value as
+ NULL will remove the entry. If XATTR_CREATE is set in flags, no extended
+ attribute with the same name may exist. If XATTR_REPLACE is set, the
+ extended attribute has to exist or the operation will fail
+
+ssize_t simple_xattr_list(struct simple_xattrs *xattrs, char *buffer,
+ size_t size);
+- Lists the existing extended attributes names in a given buffer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-05 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-05 18:31 [PATCH 0/2] cgroups: add documentation on extended attributes and simple_xattr functions Aristeu Rozanski
2012-09-05 18:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] cgroups: add documentation on extended attributes usage Aristeu Rozanski
2012-09-05 22:49 ` Tejun Heo
2012-09-05 18:31 ` Aristeu Rozanski [this message]
2012-09-05 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] fs: add documentation to simple_xattr functions Tejun Heo
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