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[PATCH v7 07/16] ext4: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get

From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-01-22 16:03:34
Also in: linux-cifs, linux-ext4, linux-f2fs-devel, linux-fsdevel, linux-nfs, linux-xfs
Subsystem: ext4 file system, filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), the rest · Maintainers: "Theodore Ts'o", Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Linus Torvalds

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

Report ext4's case sensitivity behavior via the FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD
flag. ext4 always preserves case at rest.

Case sensitivity is a per-directory setting in ext4. If the queried
inode is a casefolded directory, report case-insensitive; otherwise
report case-sensitive (standard POSIX behavior).

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
 fs/ext4/ioctl.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
index 7ce0fc40aec2..462da7aadc80 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ioctl.c
@@ -996,6 +996,13 @@ int ext4_fileattr_get(struct dentry *dentry, struct file_kattr *fa)
 	if (ext4_has_feature_project(inode->i_sb))
 		fa->fsx_projid = from_kprojid(&init_user_ns, ei->i_projid);
 
+	/*
+	 * Case folding is a directory attribute in ext4. Set FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD
+	 * for directories with the casefold attribute; all other inodes use
+	 * standard case-sensitive semantics.
+	 */
+	if (IS_CASEFOLDED(inode))
+		fa->fsx_xflags |= FS_XFLAG_CASEFOLD;
 	return 0;
 }
 
-- 
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