xattr: add a function to check if a namespace is supported

Add a function that checks is an extended attribute namespace is
supported for an inode, meaning that a handler must be present
for either the whole namespace, or at least one synthetic
xattr in the namespace.

To be used by the nfs server code when being queried for extended
attributes support.

Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

fs/xattr.c

@@ -134,6 +134,33 @@ xattr_permission(struct inode *inode, const char *name, int mask)
 	return inode_permission(inode, mask);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Look for any handler that deals with the specified namespace.
+ */
+int
+xattr_supported_namespace(struct inode *inode, const char *prefix)
+{
+	const struct xattr_handler **handlers = inode->i_sb->s_xattr;
+	const struct xattr_handler *handler;
+	size_t preflen;
+
+	if (!(inode->i_opflags & IOP_XATTR)) {
+		if (unlikely(is_bad_inode(inode)))
+			return -EIO;
+		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
+
+	preflen = strlen(prefix);
+
+	for_each_xattr_handler(handlers, handler) {
+		if (!strncmp(xattr_prefix(handler), prefix, preflen))
+			return 0;
+	}
+
+	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(xattr_supported_namespace);
+
 int
 __vfs_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, const char *name,
 	       const void *value, size_t size, int flags)

include/linux/xattr.h

@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ ssize_t generic_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, size_t buffer_siz
 ssize_t vfs_getxattr_alloc(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 			   char **xattr_value, size_t size, gfp_t flags);
 
+int xattr_supported_namespace(struct inode *inode, const char *prefix);
+
 static inline const char *xattr_prefix(const struct xattr_handler *handler)
 {
 	return handler->prefix ?: handler->name;