From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available [ver #3]
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 16:05:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161204160504.GG1555@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161204043803.GA1022@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Dec 04, 2016 at 04:38:05AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> I understand wanting to avoid extra arguments, but you are asking for trouble
> with that sort of calling conventions. Verifying that all call chains have
> these fields initialized is bloody unpleasant and it *is* going to break,
> especially since the rules are "you need to initialize it for vfs_xgetattr(),
> but not for vfs_getattr()" - the names are similar enough for confusion,
> and that's not the only such pair.
BTW, after some grepping: you seem to leave ecryptfs_getattr() as-is, which
means that flags it had been passed by caller in *stat are not seen by
underlying fs. Looks fishy...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-04 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-23 0:55 [RFC][PATCH 0/4] Enhanced file stat system call [ver #3] David Howells
2016-11-23 0:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available " David Howells
2016-11-23 8:37 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-11-23 22:42 ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-23 22:57 ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-24 8:13 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-11-24 2:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-24 7:27 ` David Howells
2016-12-04 4:00 ` Al Viro
2016-12-04 4:38 ` Al Viro
2016-12-04 16:05 ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-12-04 17:33 ` Al Viro
2016-12-05 14:49 ` Miklos Szeredi
2016-12-05 15:37 ` David Howells
2016-11-23 0:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] statx: Ext4: Return enhanced file attributes " David Howells
2016-11-23 17:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2016-11-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 3/4] statx: NFS: " David Howells
2016-11-23 0:56 ` [PATCH 4/4] statx: AFS: " David Howells
2016-11-24 2:06 ` Andreas Dilger
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