+/* Flags that should be inherited by new inodes from their parent. */
+#define EXT4_FL_INHERITED (EXT4_SECRM_FL | EXT4_UNRM_FL | EXT4_COMPR_FL |\
+ EXT4_SYNC_FL | EXT4_IMMUTABLE_FL | EXT4_APPEND_FL |\
+ EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL |\
+ EXT4_NOCOMPR_FL | EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL |\
+ EXT4_NOTAIL_FL | EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL)
+
+/* Flags that are appropriate for regular files (all but dir-specific ones). */
+#define EXT4_REG_FLMASK (~(EXT4_DIRSYNC_FL | EXT4_TOPDIR_FL))
+
+/* Flags that are appropriate for non-directories/regular files. */
+#define EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK (EXT4_NODUMP_FL | EXT4_NOATIME_FL)
+
+/* Mask out flags that are inappropriate for the given type of inode. */
+static inline __u32 ext4_mask_flags(umode_t mode, __u32 flags)
+{
+ if (S_ISDIR(mode))
+ return flags;
+ else if (S_ISREG(mode))
+ return flags & EXT4_REG_FLMASK;
+ else
+ return flags & EXT4_OTHER_FLMASK;
+}
+