On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 08:19:56PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Add an igetxattr inode operation that behaves as getxattr but operates on > inodes instead of dentries. File systems that support this operation can > implement igetxattr for reading xattrs in contexts where a dentry is not > available, such as within SELinux inode security checks.
And this is even worse - we should not have two operations doing the same thing.
