1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h
index 9a67e7d8f812..5a1ebc789f7e 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.h
@@ -70,4 +70,18 @@ int ocfs2_calc_xattr_init(struct inode *, struct buffer_head *,
                           int, struct ocfs2_security_xattr_info *,
                           int *, int *, struct ocfs2_alloc_context **);
 
+/*
+ * xattrs can live inside an inode, as part of an external xattr block,
+ * or inside an xattr bucket, which is the leaf of a tree rooted in an
+ * xattr block.  Some of the xattr calls, especially the value setting
+ * functions, want to treat each of these locations as equal.  Let's wrap
+ * them in a structure that we can pass around instead of raw buffer_heads.
+ */
+struct ocfs2_xattr_value_buf {
+        struct buffer_head              *vb_bh;
+        ocfs2_journal_access_func       vb_access;
+        struct ocfs2_xattr_value_root   *vb_xv;
+};
+
+
 #endif /* OCFS2_XATTR_H */