Re: [PATCH 00/18] new API for FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS/FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:08 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:40:54PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > This series adds the infrastructure and conversion of filesystems to the
> > new API.
> >
> > Two filesystems are not converted: FUSE and CIFS, as they behave
> > differently from local filesystems (use the file pointer, don't perform
> > permission checks).  It's likely that these two can be supported with minor
> > changes to the API, but this requires more thought.
>
> Why not change the API now?  ie pass the file instead of the dentry?

These are inode attributes we are talking about, not much sense in
passing an open file to the filesystem.  That was/is due to ioctl
being an fd based API.

It would make more sense to convert these filesystems to use a dentry
instead of a file pointer.  Which is not trivial, unfortuantely.

Thanks,
Miklos