Files
linux/fs/kernfs/inode.c
Christian Brauner c237aa9884 kernfs: don't fail listing extended attributes
Userspace doesn't expect a failure to list extended attributes:

  $ ls -lA /sys/
  ls: /sys/: No data available
  ls: /sys/kernel: No data available
  ls: /sys/power: No data available
  ls: /sys/class: No data available
  ls: /sys/devices: No data available
  ls: /sys/dev: No data available
  ls: /sys/hypervisor: No data available
  ls: /sys/fs: No data available
  ls: /sys/bus: No data available
  ls: /sys/firmware: No data available
  ls: /sys/block: No data available
  ls: /sys/module: No data available
  total 0
  drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 block
  drwxr-xr-x  52 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 bus
  drwxr-xr-x  88 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 class
  drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 dev
  drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 devices
  drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 firmware
  drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 fs
  drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 0 Jul  2 09:43 hypervisor
  drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 kernel
  drwxr-xr-x 251 root root 0 Jan  1  1970 module
  drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 0 Jul  2 09:43 power

Fix it by simply reporting success when no extended attributes are
available instead of reporting ENODATA.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/78b13bcdae82ade95e88f315682966051f461dde.camel@linaro.org
Fixes: d1f4e90260 ("kernfs: remove iattr_mutex") # mainline only
Reported-by: André Draszik <andre.draszik@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250819-ahndung-abgaben-524a535f8101@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-08-19 13:51:28 +02:00

11 KiB