Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?

[Casey Schaufler]

Rob MacKinnon wrote:
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> Casey Schaufler wrote:
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> > Rob MacKinnon wrote:
> >     
> > > Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > >  
> > >       
> > > > On Monday, 27 October 2008 21:25:31 Stephen Smalley wrote:
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> > > >         
> > > > > 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

We aims to please. Thank you for the work you put in. That, and everyone
who jumped in to help identify the problem.


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