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authorDavid P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>2008-02-04 22:29:39 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:20 -0800
commit42492594043d621a7910ff5877c3eb9202870b45 (patch)
tree9188d112c019a189606847dc1d90ccc63c1bacf2 /include/linux/xattr.h
parent3729145821e3088a0c3c4183037fde356204bf97 (diff)
VFS/Security: Rework inode_getsecurity and callers to return resulting buffer
This patch modifies the interface to inode_getsecurity to have the function return a buffer containing the security blob and its length via parameters instead of relying on the calling function to give it an appropriately sized buffer. Security blobs obtained with this function should be freed using the release_secctx LSM hook. This alleviates the problem of the caller having to guess a length and preallocate a buffer for this function allowing it to be used elsewhere for Labeled NFS. The patch also removed the unused err parameter. The conversion is similar to the one performed by Al Viro for the security_getprocattr hook. Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/xattr.h')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index def131a5ac7..df6b95d2218 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct xattr_handler {
size_t size, int flags);
};
+ssize_t xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *, const char *, void *, size_t);
ssize_t vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t);
ssize_t vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *d, char *list, size_t size);
int vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *, char *, void *, size_t, int);