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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>, Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
	a.gruenbacher@computer.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: ensure trusted xattrs are not returned to unprivileged users via listxattr
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:29:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100302092946.GA21180@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LRH.2.00.1003021901530.1594@tundra.namei.org>

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@namei.org>

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

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-02  8:01 [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Correct behavior for listxattr and 'trusted' xattrs James Morris
2010-03-02  8:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] jffs2: ensure trusted xattrs are not returned to unprivileged users via listxattr James Morris
2010-03-02  8:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: " James Morris
2010-03-02  9:29   ` Joel Becker [this message]
2010-03-02 22:01     ` James Morris
2010-03-02 23:15     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-02 23:15       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2010-03-02  8:28 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Correct behavior for listxattr and 'trusted' xattrs Andreas Dilger
2010-03-03 13:02 ` Stephen Smalley
2010-03-10 11:48   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-03-03 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-10 11:26   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2010-03-10 11:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-10 14:04   ` James Morris

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