Currently it seems impossible to observe these changes to the file's attributes. It's useful to be able to do this to see when the file becomes immutable, for example, so emit IN_ATTRIB via fsnotify_xattr(), like when changing other inode attributes. Signed-off-by: Ahelenia ZiemiaƄska --- Given: #include #include #include #include int main() { int fd = inotify_init(); inotify_add_watch(fd, ".", IN_ATTRIB); char buf[sizeof(struct inotify_event) + NAME_MAX + 1]; for (;;) { ssize_t rd = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)); struct inotify_event *ev = buf, *end = buf + rd; while (ev < end) { printf("%x\t%s\n", ev->mask, ev->name); ev = (char *)(ev + 1) + ev->len; } } } Before: sh-5.2# ./test & [1] 255 sh-5.2# chmod -x test 4 test sh-5.2# setfattr -n user.name -v value test 4 test sh-5.2# chattr -i test sh-5.2# After: sh-5.2# ./test & [1] 280 sh-5.2# chmod -x test 4 test sh-5.2# setfattr -n user.name -v value test 4 test sh-5.2# chattr -i test 4 test sh-5.2# fs/file_attr.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/file_attr.c b/fs/file_attr.c index 4c4916632f11..13cdb31a3e94 100644 --- a/fs/file_attr.c +++ b/fs/file_attr.c @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -298,6 +299,7 @@ int vfs_fileattr_set(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry, err = inode->i_op->fileattr_set(idmap, dentry, fa); if (err) goto out; + fsnotify_xattr(dentry); } out: -- 2.39.5