# Re: \[PATCH v6 4/6\] fs: make vfs\_fileattr\_\[get\|set\] return -EOPNOSUPP

- From: Jan Kara \<jack@suse.cz\>
- Date: 2025-07-01 12:51:58 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2025/07/316449
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2025/06/316331/t.md

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On Tue 01-07-25 08:05:45, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 6:20 PM Andrey Albershteyn [ref] wrote:
> >
> > Future patches will add new syscalls which use these functions. As
> > this interface won't be used for ioctls only, the EOPNOSUPP is more
> > appropriate return code.
> >
> > This patch converts return code from ENOIOCTLCMD to EOPNOSUPP for
> > vfs_fileattr_get and vfs_fileattr_set. To save old behavior translate
> > EOPNOSUPP back for current users - overlayfs, encryptfs and fs/ioctl.c.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
...
> > --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> > @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ int ovl_real_fileattr_get(const struct path *realpath, struct fileattr *fa)
> >                 return err;
> >
> >         err = vfs_fileattr_get(realpath->dentry, fa);
> > -       if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
> > +       if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> >                 err = -ENOTTY;
> >         return err;
> >  }
> 
> That's the wrong way, because it hides the desired -EOPNOTSUPP
> return code from ovl_fileattr_get().
> 
> The conversion to -ENOTTY was done for
> 5b0a414d06c3 ("ovl: fix filattr copy-up failure"),
> so please do this instead:
> 
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
> @@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ int ovl_real_fileattr_get(const struct path
> *realpath, struct fileattr *fa)
> 
>         err = vfs_fileattr_get(realpath->dentry, fa);
>         if (err == -ENOIOCTLCMD)
> -               err = -ENOTTY;
> +               err = -EOPNOTSUPP;

Is this really needed? AFAICS nobody returns ENOIOCTLCMD after this
patch...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara [ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
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