On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 09:24:24AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> From: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
>
> Enable upper layers such as NFSD to retrieve case sensitivity
> information from file systems by adding FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD and
> FS_XFLAG_CASENONPRESERVING flags.
>
> Filesystems report case-insensitive or case-nonpreserving behavior
> by setting these flags directly in fa->fsx_xflags. The default
> (flags unset) indicates POSIX semantics: case-sensitive and
> case-preserving. These flags are read-only; userspace cannot set
> them via ioctl.
>
> Relocate struct file_kattr initialization from fileattr_fill_xflags()
> and fileattr_fill_flags() to vfs_fileattr_get() and the ioctl/syscall
> call sites. This allows filesystem ->fileattr_get() callbacks to set
> flags directly in fa->fsx_xflags before invoking the fill functions,
> which previously would have zeroed those values. Callers that bypass
> vfs_fileattr_get() must now zero-initialize the struct themselves.
>
> Case sensitivity information is exported to userspace via the
> fa_xflags field in the FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR ioctl and file_getattr()
> system call.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
> ---
> fs/file_attr.c | 14 ++++++--------
> fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/fileattr.h | 3 ++-
> include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
This ought to go to linux-api because you're changing the userspace api.
Granted it's only adding a flag definition to an existing ioctl, but
FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD /does/ collide with Andrey's fsverity xflag patch...
(The rest of the changes looks ok to me.)
--D
> 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c
> index 13cdb31a3e94..2700200c5b9c 100644
> --- a/fs/file_attr.c
> +++ b/fs/file_attr.c
> @@ -15,12 +15,10 @@
> * @fa: fileattr pointer
> * @xflags: FS_XFLAG_* flags
> *
> - * Set ->fsx_xflags, ->fsx_valid and ->flags (translated xflags). All
> - * other fields are zeroed.
> + * Set ->fsx_xflags, ->fsx_valid and ->flags (translated xflags).
> */
> void fileattr_fill_xflags(struct file_kattr *fa, u32 xflags)
> {
> - memset(fa, 0, sizeof(*fa));
> fa->fsx_valid = true;
> fa->fsx_xflags = xflags;
> if (fa->fsx_xflags & FS_XFLAG_IMMUTABLE)
> @@ -46,11 +44,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fileattr_fill_xflags);
> * @flags: FS_*_FL flags
> *
> * Set ->flags, ->flags_valid and ->fsx_xflags (translated flags).
> - * All other fields are zeroed.
> */
> void fileattr_fill_flags(struct file_kattr *fa, u32 flags)
> {
> - memset(fa, 0, sizeof(*fa));
> fa->flags_valid = true;
> fa->flags = flags;
> if (fa->flags & FS_SYNC_FL)
> @@ -84,6 +80,8 @@ int vfs_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct
> file_kattr *fa)
> struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
> int error;
>
> + memset(fa, 0, sizeof(*fa));
> +
> if (!inode->i_op->fileattr_get)
> return -ENOIOCTLCMD;
>
> @@ -323,7 +321,7 @@ int ioctl_setflags(struct file *file, unsigned int __user
> *argp)
> {
> struct mnt_idmap *idmap = file_mnt_idmap(file);
> struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
> - struct file_kattr fa;
> + struct file_kattr fa = {};
> unsigned int flags;
> int err;
>
> @@ -355,7 +353,7 @@ int ioctl_fssetxattr(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
> {
> struct mnt_idmap *idmap = file_mnt_idmap(file);
> struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
> - struct file_kattr fa;
> + struct file_kattr fa = {};
> int err;
>
> err = copy_fsxattr_from_user(&fa, argp);
> @@ -434,7 +432,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(file_setattr, int, dfd, const char __user
> *, filename,
> struct filename *name __free(putname) = NULL;
> unsigned int lookup_flags = 0;
> struct file_attr fattr;
> - struct file_kattr fa;
> + struct file_kattr fa = {};
> int error;
>
> BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct file_attr) < FILE_ATTR_SIZE_VER0);
> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
> index 59eaad774371..f0417c4d1fca 100644
> --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
> +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
> @@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ xfs_ioc_fsgetxattra(
> xfs_inode_t *ip,
> void __user *arg)
> {
> - struct file_kattr fa;
> + struct file_kattr fa = {};
>
> xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
> xfs_fill_fsxattr(ip, XFS_ATTR_FORK, &fa);
> diff --git a/include/linux/fileattr.h b/include/linux/fileattr.h
> index f89dcfad3f8f..709de829659f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fileattr.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fileattr.h
> @@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
>
> /* Read-only inode flags */
> #define FS_XFLAG_RDONLY_MASK \
> - (FS_XFLAG_PREALLOC | FS_XFLAG_HASATTR)
> + (FS_XFLAG_PREALLOC | FS_XFLAG_HASATTR | \
> + FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD | FS_XFLAG_CASENONPRESERVING)
>
> /* Flags to indicate valid value of fsx_ fields */
> #define FS_XFLAG_VALUES_MASK \
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> index 66ca526cf786..919148beaa8c 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
> @@ -253,6 +253,8 @@ struct file_attr {
> #define FS_XFLAG_FILESTREAM 0x00004000 /* use filestream allocator */
> #define FS_XFLAG_DAX 0x00008000 /* use DAX for IO */
> #define FS_XFLAG_COWEXTSIZE 0x00010000 /* CoW extent size allocator
> hint */
> +#define FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD 0x00020000 /* case-insensitive lookups */
> +#define FS_XFLAG_CASENONPRESERVING 0x00040000 /* case not preserved */
> #define FS_XFLAG_HASATTR 0x80000000 /* no DIFLAG for this */
>
> /* the read-only stuff doesn't really belong here, but any other place is
> --
> 2.52.0
>
>
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