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User extended attributes are useful as metadata storage for kernfs consumers like cgroups. Especially in the case of cgroups, it is useful to have a central metadata store that multiple processes/services can use to coordinate actions. A concrete example is for userspace out of memory killers. We want to let delegated cgroup subtree owners (running as non-root) to be able to say "please avoid killing this cgroup". This is especially important for desktop linux as delegated subtrees owners are less likely to run as root. This patch introduces a new flag, KERNFS_ROOT_SUPPORT_USER_XATTR, that lets kernfs consumers enable user xattr support. An initial limit of 128 entries or 128KB -- whichever is hit first -- is placed per cgroup because xattrs come from kernel memory and we don't want to let unprivileged users accidentally eat up too much kernel memory. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
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