[PATCH v2 07/10] ntfs: add fileattr query support

From: Baolin Liu

Date: Sun Sep 20 2026 - 04:33:34 EST


From: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>

Add fileattr_get operations for files and directories, as well as the
existing symlink and special inode operation tables. Report compression,
encryption, immutable and append-only from cached inode state, and
FS_CASEFOLD_FL from the mount-wide case sensitivity policy.

This introduces querying only. It neither reads a private flag EA nor
allows userspace to change the reported flags.

Signed-off-by: Baolin Liu <liubaolin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst | 8 ++++++++
fs/ntfs/file.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ntfs/namei.c | 1 +
fs/ntfs/ntfs.h | 2 ++
4 files changed, 44 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst
index 4bfa392daec6..0a4c43d6c890 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ The Linux NTFS filesystem driver

- Overview
- Utilities support
+ - Linux file attributes
- Supported mount options


@@ -34,6 +35,13 @@ The project is available at:
https://github.com/ntfsprogs-plus/ntfsprogs-plus


+Linux file attributes
+=====================
+
+The driver supports querying compression, encryption, immutable, append-only
+and mount-wide case folding through lsattr(1). Case folding is reported
+according to the mount options.
+
Supported mount options
=======================

diff --git a/fs/ntfs/file.c b/fs/ntfs/file.c
index 99a2c7a5cf81..e5846bf498b0 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/file.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>
#include <linux/compat.h>
#include <linux/falloc.h>
+#include <linux/fileattr.h>

#include "lcnalloc.h"
#include "ntfs.h"
@@ -136,6 +137,35 @@ static int ntfs_file_release(struct inode *vi, struct file *filp)
return 0;
}

+/*
+ * ntfs_fileattr_get - inode_operations::fileattr_get
+ * @dentry: dentry to report the flags of
+ * @fa: filled in with the flags of @dentry
+ */
+int ntfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct file_kattr *fa)
+{
+ struct inode *vi = d_inode(dentry);
+ struct ntfs_inode *ni = NTFS_I(vi);
+ u32 flags = 0;
+
+ if (NVolShutdown(ni->vol))
+ return -EIO;
+
+ if (NInoCompressed(ni) || NInoWofCompressed(ni))
+ flags |= FS_COMPR_FL;
+ if (NInoEncrypted(ni))
+ flags |= FS_ENCRYPT_FL;
+ if (vi->i_flags & S_IMMUTABLE)
+ flags |= FS_IMMUTABLE_FL;
+ if (vi->i_flags & S_APPEND)
+ flags |= FS_APPEND_FL;
+ if (!NVolCaseSensitive(ni->vol))
+ flags |= FS_CASEFOLD_FL;
+
+ fileattr_fill_flags(fa, flags);
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* ntfs_file_fsync - sync a file to disk
* @filp: file to be synced
@@ -1234,6 +1264,7 @@ const struct file_operations ntfs_file_ops = {
};

const struct inode_operations ntfs_file_inode_ops = {
+ .fileattr_get = ntfs_fileattr_get,
.setattr = ntfs_setattr,
.getattr = ntfs_getattr,
.listxattr = ntfs_listxattr,
@@ -1243,12 +1274,14 @@ const struct inode_operations ntfs_file_inode_ops = {
};

const struct inode_operations ntfs_symlink_inode_operations = {
+ .fileattr_get = ntfs_fileattr_get,
.get_link = ntfs_get_link,
.setattr = ntfs_setattr,
.listxattr = ntfs_listxattr,
};

const struct inode_operations ntfs_special_inode_operations = {
+ .fileattr_get = ntfs_fileattr_get,
.setattr = ntfs_setattr,
.getattr = ntfs_getattr,
.listxattr = ntfs_listxattr,
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/namei.c b/fs/ntfs/namei.c
index 3e0adb9a0ea4..ee451700b766 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ntfs/namei.c
@@ -1548,6 +1548,7 @@ static int ntfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
* Inode operations for directories.
*/
const struct inode_operations ntfs_dir_inode_ops = {
+ .fileattr_get = ntfs_fileattr_get,
.lookup = ntfs_lookup, /* VFS: Lookup directory. */
.create = ntfs_create,
.unlink = ntfs_unlink,
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/ntfs.h b/fs/ntfs/ntfs.h
index dd56894762a9..a5c5c18671d2 100644
--- a/fs/ntfs/ntfs.h
+++ b/fs/ntfs/ntfs.h
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ extern const struct inode_operations ntfs_dir_inode_ops;
extern const struct file_operations ntfs_empty_file_ops;
extern const struct inode_operations ntfs_empty_inode_ops;

+int ntfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct file_kattr *fa);
+
extern const struct export_operations ntfs_export_ops;

/*
--
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