Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?

[Rob MacKinnon]

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Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Rob MacKinnon wrote:
>> Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>>  
>>> On Monday, 27 October 2008 21:25:31 Stephen Smalley wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Looks like a bug in Smack's implementation of the inode_listsecurity
>>>> hook to me.  Did you mean to enable Smack in your kernel config?
>>>>       
>>> Yes, there is at least one bug there; this kernel is broken. You may
>>> want to try booting with a kernel command line option like
>>> "security=none", which *should* turn smack off.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>     
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Indeed the kernel cmdline option security=none did disable smack. So
>> atleast that works. Thank you all for helping me track this down.  I can
>> now return to updating packages (some of which have been waiting
>> patiently for this to be cleared up)!  Though I will be looking forward
>> to this feature working as it was intended. ;)  Let me know if there is
>> a bug # assigned and I'll quietly return to lurking... ;
> 
> It looks like a trivial fix and the patch is here. I have just started
> testing it myself, but if I don't send it now it will be Wednesday before
> I do. No sign-off because I haven't verified it, but I would be delighted
> if you would pass judgement on its efficacy. Thank you.
> 

All,

Applied, compiled, and tested clean on a P4 Prescott. I'll try this a
little later on my x64. Thank you for this fix, and thank you all for
just a fast response.

- -- Rob

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