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authorAndreas Gruenbacher2015-12-02 14:44:33 +0100
committerAl Viro2015-12-07 03:25:16 +0100
commit80602324d5a02fea97ed1328ba04e5d7f10aaff8 (patch)
tree32d9b0fe80ca80aa7897c0fbcf89f361f79fb7e4 /fs/xattr.c
parentLinux 4.4-rc4 (diff)
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vfs: Remove vfs_xattr_cmp
This function was only briefly used in security/integrity/evm, between commits 66dbc325 and 15647eb3. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xattr.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/xattr.c19
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 9b932b95d74e..58bdabcc9d35 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -208,25 +208,6 @@ vfs_getxattr_alloc(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, char **xattr_value,
return error;
}
-/* Compare an extended attribute value with the given value */
-int vfs_xattr_cmp(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
- const char *value, size_t size, gfp_t flags)
-{
- char *xattr_value = NULL;
- int rc;
-
- rc = vfs_getxattr_alloc(dentry, xattr_name, &xattr_value, 0, flags);
- if (rc < 0)
- return rc;
-
- if ((rc != size) || (memcmp(xattr_value, value, rc) != 0))
- rc = -EINVAL;
- else
- rc = 0;
- kfree(xattr_value);
- return rc;
-}
-
ssize_t
vfs_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, void *value, size_t size)
{