ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd
authorJan (janneke) Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Mon, 25 May 2020 19:39:40 +0000 (21:39 +0200)
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:23:34 +0000 (13:23 -0400)
commit88ee9d571b6d8ed345f877e05f685814412e359b
tree936b3248c3a5eed5b54eeda3e6c04e210c73399f
parent811985365378df01386c3cfb7ff716e74ca376d5
ext4: support xattr gnu.* namespace for the Hurd

The Hurd gained[0] support for moving the translator and author
fields out of the inode and into the "gnu.*" xattr namespace.

In anticipation of that, an xattr INDEX was reserved[1].  The Hurd has
now been brought into compliance[2] with that.

This patch adds support for reading and writing such attributes from
Linux; you can now do something like

    mkdir -p hurd-root/servers/socket
    touch hurd-root/servers/socket/1
    setfattr --name=gnu.translator --value='"/hurd/pflocal\0"' \
        hurd-root/servers/socket/1
    getfattr --name=gnu.translator hurd-root/servers/socket/1
    # file: 1
    gnu.translator="/hurd/pflocal"

to setup a pipe translator, which is being used to create[3] a
vm-image for the Hurd from GNU Guix.

[0] https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/projects/#5869799859027968
[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3980bd3b406addb327d858aebd19e229ea340b9a
[2] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/commit/?id=a04c7bf83172faa7cb080fbe3b6c04a8415ca645
[3] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/log/?h=wip-hurd-vm

Signed-off-by: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200525193940.878-1-janneke@gnu.org
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
fs/ext4/Makefile
fs/ext4/xattr.c
fs/ext4/xattr.h
fs/ext4/xattr_hurd.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/uapi/linux/xattr.h