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vfs: Pass setxattr(2) flags properly

For some reason generic_setxattr() did not pass flags (XATTR_CREATE,
XATTR_REPLACE) to the filesystem specific helper. This caused that
setxattr(2) syscall just ignored these flags.

Fix the bug by passing flags correctly.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kara 14 years ago
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      fs/xattr.c

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fs/xattr.c

@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ generic_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value, siz
 	handler = xattr_resolve_name(dentry->d_sb->s_xattr, &name);
 	if (!handler)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-	return handler->set(dentry, name, value, size, 0, handler->flags);
+	return handler->set(dentry, name, value, size, flags, handler->flags);
 }
 
 /*