[PATCH] xattr: fix EOPNOTSUPP if fs and security xattrs disabled

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Wed May 27 2020 - 00:41:03 EST


commit f549d6c18c0e ("[PATCH] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs")
introduces a behavior change of listxattr path therefore listxattr(2)
won't report EOPNOTSUPP correctly if fs and security xattrs disabled.
However it was clearly recorded in manpage all the time.

Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

Noticed when reviewing Chengguang's patch for erofs [1] (together
with ext2, f2fs). I'm not sure if it's the best approach but it
seems that security_inode_listsecurity() has other users and it
mainly focus on reporting these security xattrs...

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526090343.22794-1-cgxu519@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

fs/xattr.c | 16 +++++++++-------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 91608d9bfc6a..f339a67db521 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -352,13 +352,15 @@ vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t size)
error = security_inode_listxattr(dentry);
if (error)
return error;
- if (inode->i_op->listxattr && (inode->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR)) {
- error = inode->i_op->listxattr(dentry, list, size);
- } else {
- error = security_inode_listsecurity(inode, list, size);
- if (size && error > size)
- error = -ERANGE;
- }
+
+ if (inode->i_op->listxattr && (inode->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR))
+ return inode->i_op->listxattr(dentry, list, size);
+
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SECURITY))
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+ error = security_inode_listsecurity(inode, list, size);
+ if (size && error > size)
+ error = -ERANGE;
return error;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_listxattr);
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2.24.0