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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-04-09 08:26:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-04-09 08:26:21 -0700 |
| commit | 2a610b8aa8e5bd449ba270e517b0e72295d62c9c (patch) | |
| tree | ae143a294d4dd7203ac725a1dbe24ffe7d934a75 /Documentation/filesystems/porting | |
| parent | 78d91a75b40fcf6a08506d308abf2413a29b7e30 (diff) | |
| parent | a8e28440016bfb23bec266c4c66eacca6ea2d48b (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull VFS fixes from Al Viro:
"statx followup fixes and a fix for stack-smashing on alpha"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
alpha: fix stack smashing in old_adjtimex(2)
statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx
statx: Reserve the top bit of the mask for future struct expansion
xfs: report crtime and attribute flags to statx
ext4: Add statx support
statx: optimize copy of struct statx to userspace
statx: remove incorrect part of vfs_statx() comment
statx: reject unknown flags when using NULL path
Documentation/filesystems: fix documentation for ->getattr()
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/porting')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 95280079c0b3..5fb17f49f7a2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -600,3 +600,9 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [recommended] ->readlink is optional for symlinks. Don't set, unless filesystem needs to fake something for readlink(2). +-- +[mandatory] + ->getattr() is now passed a struct path rather than a vfsmount and + dentry separately, and it now has request_mask and query_flags arguments + to specify the fields and sync type requested by statx. Filesystems not + supporting any statx-specific features may ignore the new arguments. |