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>

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 9b932b95d74e4faeb5653d1a3c4b11553d1e51e1..58bdabcc9d3566b34ca8cc5f98bf577206001892 100644 (file)
--- 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)
 {

diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index 89474b9d260cf44151b21e26ce5d64aecf62b6cb..45fa3456a0ccd863cd9558462f774042a5e504f9 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ int generic_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 int generic_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name);
 ssize_t vfs_getxattr_alloc(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
                           char **xattr_value, size_t size, gfp_t flags);
-int vfs_xattr_cmp(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
-                 const char *value, size_t size, gfp_t flags);
 
 struct simple_xattrs {
        struct list_head head;