[PATCH] Introduce vfs_listxattr

This patch moves code out of fs/xattr.c:listxattr into a new function -
vfs_listxattr. The code for vfs_listxattr was originally submitted by Bill
Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> to Unionfs.

Sorry about that.  The reason for this submission is to make the
listxattr code in fs/xattr.c a little cleaner (as well as to clean up
some code in Unionfs.)

Currently, Unionfs has vfs_listxattr defined in its code.  I think
that's very ugly, and I'd like to see it (re)moved.  The logical place
to put it, is along side of all the other vfs_*xattr functions.

Overall, I think this patch is benefitial for both kernel.org kernel and
Unionfs.

Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index c32f15b5f60f..395635100f77 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -135,6 +135,26 @@ vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, void *value, size_t size)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_getxattr);
 
+ssize_t
+vfs_listxattr(struct dentry *d, char *list, size_t size)
+{
+        ssize_t error;
+
+        error = security_inode_listxattr(d);
+        if (error)
+                return error;
+        error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
+        if (d->d_inode->i_op && d->d_inode->i_op->listxattr) {
+                error = d->d_inode->i_op->listxattr(d, list, size);
+        } else {
+                error = security_inode_listsecurity(d->d_inode, list, size);
+                if (size && error > size)
+                        error = -ERANGE;
+        }
+        return error;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_listxattr);
+
 int
 vfs_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
 {
@@ -346,17 +366,7 @@ listxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user *list, size_t size)
                         return -ENOMEM;
         }
 
-        error = security_inode_listxattr(d);
-        if (error)
-                goto out;
-        error = -EOPNOTSUPP;
-        if (d->d_inode->i_op && d->d_inode->i_op->listxattr) {
-                error = d->d_inode->i_op->listxattr(d, klist, size);
-        } else {
-                error = security_inode_listsecurity(d->d_inode, klist, size);
-                if (size && error > size)
-                        error = -ERANGE;
-        }
+        error = vfs_listxattr(d, klist, size);
         if (error > 0) {
                 if (size && copy_to_user(list, klist, error))
                         error = -EFAULT;
@@ -365,7 +375,6 @@ listxattr(struct dentry *d, char __user *list, size_t size)
                    than XATTR_LIST_MAX bytes. Not possible. */
                 error = -E2BIG;
         }
-out:
         kfree(klist);
         return error;
 }