Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] man/man2: introduce man page for file_setattr(2) syscall
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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-10-23 13:56:35
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Date: 2026-10-21 16:10:05+0200 From: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org> Add manual pages for file_setattr() syscall. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250630-xattrat-syscall-v6-0-c4e3bc35227b@kernel.org/ (local) Signed-off-by: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
Hi Andrey, I've applied this patch with some tweaks. Thanks! Cheers, Alex
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--- man/man2/file_setattr.2 | 183 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 183 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man2/file_setattr.2diff --git a/man/man2/file_setattr.2 b/man/man2/file_setattr.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b11c9ff9277f --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/file_setattr.2@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@ +.\" Copyright, the authors of the Linux man-pages project +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH file_setattr 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +file_setattr \- set filesystem file attributes +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#include <linux/fcntl.h>" " /* Definition of " AT_* " constants */" +.BR "#include <linux/fs.h>" " /* Definition of " FS_XFLAG_* " constants */" +.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" " /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */" +.B #include <unistd.h> +.P +.B long syscall(SYS_file_setattr, +.BI " int " dirfd ", const char *" path , +.BI " const struct file_attr *" fattr ", size_t " size , +.BI " unsigned int " flags ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR file_setattr () +system call sets filesystem file attributes +on the file specified by path. +.P +The +.IR dirfd , +.IR path , +.IR size , +and +.I flags +arguments behave in the same way as in +.BR file_getattr (2). +The +.IR fattr , +is read-only argument with +file attributes to set. +User-space applications should use +.BR file_getattr (2) +to initialize +.I fattr +argument beforehand. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, +zero is returned. +On error, +\-1 is returned, +and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +The errors are the same as returned by +.BR file_getattr (2) +with the addition of following ones: +.TP +.B E2BIG +.I size +indicates a version which the kernel doesn't support +(the size is larger than the kernel expects) +and new fields are non-zero. +.TP +.B EINVAL +Invalid combination of parameters provided in +.I fattr +for this type of file or filesystem. +.TP +.B EPERM +The caller does not have the necessary permissions +to change the file attributes. +.TP +.B EROFS +The file is on a read-only filesystem. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 6.17 +.SH NOTES +This system call is designed to be extensible. +The +.I size +argument allows user-space applications to indicate +which version of the +.I file_attr +structure they are using, +enabling the kernel to support both old and new versions +of the structure simultaneously. +.P +If +.I size +is smaller than the structure size the kernel expects, +the kernel treats the missing fields as having zero values +(which is a no-op). +If +.I size +is larger than expected, +the kernel checks that all unknown (to the kernel) fields are zero; +if not, +the call fails with +.BR E2BIG . +.SH EXAMPLES +The program below demonstrates the use of +.BR file_setattr () +to set the +.B FS_XFLAG_NODUMP +flag on a file. +.P +.in +4n +.\" SRC BEGIN (file_setattr.c) +.EX +#define _GNU_SOURCE +#include <fcntl.h> +#include <linux/fs.h> +#include <stdio.h> +#include <stdlib.h> +#include <string.h> +#include <sys/syscall.h> +#include <unistd.h> +\& +#ifndef SYS_file_getattr +#define SYS_file_getattr 467 +#endif +\& +#ifndef SYS_file_setattr +#define SYS_file_setattr 468 +#endif +\& +int +main(int argc, char *argv[]) +{ + struct file_attr fa; + int dfd; + long ret; +\& + if (argc != 2) { + fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <filename>\[rs]n", argv[0]); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } +\& + dfd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); + if (dfd == \-1) { + perror("open"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } +\& + ret = syscall(SYS_file_getattr, dfd, "", &fa, sizeof(fa), + AT_EMPTY_PATH); + if (ret == \-1) { + perror("file_getattr"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } +\& + printf("Current flags: 0x%w64x\[rs]n", fa.fa_xflags); +\& + fa.fa_xflags |= FS_XFLAG_NODUMP; +\& + ret = syscall(SYS_file_setattr, dfd, "", &fa, sizeof(fa), + AT_EMPTY_PATH); + if (ret == \-1) { + perror("file_setattr"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } +\& + ret = syscall(SYS_file_getattr, dfd, "", &fa, sizeof(fa), + AT_EMPTY_PATH); + if (ret == \-1) { + perror("file_getattr"); + exit(EXIT_FAILURE); + } +\& + if (fa.fa_xflags & FS_XFLAG_NODUMP) + printf("flags 0x%w64x (NODUMP flag is set)\[rs]n", fa.fa_xflags); +\& + exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); +} +.EE +.\" SRC END +.in +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR file_getattr (2), +.BR ioctl (2), +.BR ioctl_fs (2), +.BR openat (2), +.BR file_attr (2type), +.BR path_resolution (7), +.BR ioctl_xfs_fssetxattr (2)-- 2.56.0
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