[PATCH] move xattr permission checks into the VFS

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very
different for different attribute namespaces.  This patch moves as much as we
can into the generic code.  Currently all the major disk based filesystems
duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems
lack some or all of them.

To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I
moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/fs/jfs/xattr.c b/fs/jfs/xattr.c
index 23aa5066b5a4..9dde36a1eb5d 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/xattr.c
@@ -83,21 +83,6 @@ struct ea_buffer {
 #define EA_NEW          0x0004
 #define EA_MALLOC       0x0008
 
-/* Namespaces */
-#define XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX "system."
-#define XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX) - 1)
-
-#define XATTR_USER_PREFIX "user."
-#define XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_USER_PREFIX) - 1)
-
-#define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX "os2."
-#define XATTR_OS2_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_OS2_PREFIX) - 1)
-
-/* XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX is defined in include/linux/xattr.h */
-#define XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX) - 1)
-
-#define XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX "trusted."
-#define XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX) - 1)
 
 /*
  * These three routines are used to recognize on-disk extended attributes