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authorMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-06-06 15:29:25 -0400
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-07-18 12:29:38 -0400
commit9d8f13ba3f4833219e50767b022b82cd0da930eb (patch)
tree3ba2367380d009111ea17696162a62320c88d144 /include/linux/xattr.h
parent0f2a55d5bb2372058275b0b343d90dd5d640d045 (diff)
security: new security_inode_init_security API adds function callback
This patch changes the security_inode_init_security API by adding a filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes. This change is in preparation for supporting the initialization of multiple LSM xattrs and the EVM xattr. Initially the callback function walks an array of xattrs, writing each xattr separately, but could be optimized to write multiple xattrs at once. For existing security_inode_init_security() calls, which have not yet been converted to use the new callback function, such as those in reiserfs and ocfs2, this patch defines security_old_inode_init_security(). Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/xattr.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/xattr.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index aed54c50aa6..7a378662ddf 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ struct xattr_handler {
size_t size, int flags, int handler_flags);
};
+struct xattr {
+ char *name;
+ void *value;
+ size_t value_len;
+};
+
ssize_t xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *, const char *, void *, size_t);
ssize_t vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *, const char *, void *, size_t);
ssize_t vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *d, char *list, size_t size);