Hi Mark, Thank you for the patch! Yet something to improve: [auto build test ERROR on linus/master] [cannot apply to v5.3-rc4 next-20190814] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Mark-Salyzyn/Add-flags-option-to-get-xattr-method-paired-to-__vfs_getxattr/20190816-155049 config: x86_64-lkp (attached as .config) compiler: gcc-7 (Debian 7.4.0-10) 7.4.0 reproduce: # save the attached .config to linux build tree make ARCH=x86_64 If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag Reported-by: kbuild test robot All errors (new ones prefixed by >>): >> fs/ext2/xattr_security.c:56:9: error: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types] .get = ext2_xattr_security_get, ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ fs/ext2/xattr_security.c:56:9: note: (near initialization for 'ext2_xattr_security_handler.get') cc1: some warnings being treated as errors vim +56 fs/ext2/xattr_security.c 9d8f13ba3f4833 Mimi Zohar 2011-06-06 53 749c72efa4bd91 Stephen Hemminger 2010-05-13 54 const struct xattr_handler ext2_xattr_security_handler = { ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 55 .prefix = XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, ^1da177e4c3f41 Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 @56 .get = ext2_xattr_security_get, :::::: The code at line 56 was first introduced by commit :::::: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 Linux-2.6.12-rc2 :::::: TO: Linus Torvalds :::::: CC: Linus Torvalds --- 0-DAY kernel test infrastructure Open Source Technology Center https://lists.01.org/pipermail/kbuild-all Intel Corporation