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We currently store the high level attr operation in args->attr_flags. This field contains what the VFS is telling us to do, but don't necessarily match what we are doing in the low level modification state machine. e.g. XATTR_REPLACE implies both XFS_DA_OP_ADDNAME and XFS_DA_OP_RENAME because it is doing both a remove and adding a new attr. However, deep in the individual state machine operations, we check errors against this high level VFS op flags, not the low level XFS_DA_OP flags. Indeed, we don't even have a low level flag for a REMOVE operation, so the only way we know we are doing a remove is the complete absence of XATTR_REPLACE, XATTR_CREATE, XFS_DA_OP_ADDNAME and XFS_DA_OP_RENAME. And because there are other flags in these fields, this is a pain to check if we need to. As the XFS_DA_OP flags are only needed once the deferred operations are set up, set these flags appropriately when we set the initial operation state. We also introduce a XFS_DA_OP_REMOVE flag to make it easy to know that we are doing a remove operation. With these, we can remove the use of XATTR_REPLACE and XATTR_CREATE in low level lookup operations, and manipulate the low level flags according to the low level context that is operating. e.g. log recovery does not have a VFS xattr operation state to copy into args->attr_flags, and the low level state machine ops we do for recovery do not match the high level VFS operations that were in progress when the system failed... Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Allison Henderson <allison.henderson@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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