Re: [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: ensure trusted xattrs are not returned tounprivileged users via listxattr

From: Joel Becker
Date: Tue Mar 02 2010 - 04:30:27 EST


On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:02:22PM +1100, James Morris wrote:
> Ensure that trusted xattrs are not returned to unprivileged users
> via listxattr, in keeping with several other implmentations, such
> as ext3.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>

If this is the standard expectation, why not lift it up into the vfs?

Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@xxxxxxxxxx>

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