From: Avinesh Kumar <avinesh.kumar@suse.com>
To: djwong@kernel.org
Cc: avinesh.kumar@suse.com, fstests@vger.kernel.org, zlang@kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] common: strip attr 2.6.0 --restore safety warnings
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:52:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260713135256.340261-1-avinesh.kumar@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260710234655.GC15202@frogsfrogsfrogs>
From: Avinesh Kumar <avinesh.kumar@suse.com>
attr 2.6.0 (CVE-2026-54371 hardening) makes "setfattr --restore" print a
warning to stderr when neither -P nor -h is given, claiming it may
traverse or dereference symlinks in the dump's pathnames [0]. This warning
leaks into test output and breaks generic/062 and xfs/083 (via
_scratch_populate).
Add a _setfattr_restore helper that runs "setfattr --restore", filters
out just the expected warning line, and preserves any other (unexpected)
stderr. Convert the callers in common/populate, common/overlay and
generic/062 to use it.
[0] https://cgit.git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/attr.git/commit/?id=3fb06b9ba314d37035d0877e6de313de754f1ac8
Suggested-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Avinesh Kumar <avinesh.kumar@suse.com>
---
common/overlay | 2 +-
common/populate | 4 ++--
common/rc | 8 ++++++++
tests/generic/062 | 2 +-
4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/common/overlay b/common/overlay
index d32f3219..73841dd7 100644
--- a/common/overlay
+++ b/common/overlay
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ _overlay_trusted_to_user()
local dir=$1
for file in `find $dir`; do
- _getfattr --absolute-names -d -m '^trusted.overlay.(redirect|metacopy)$' $file | sed 's/^trusted/user/' | $SETFATTR_PROG --restore=-
+ _getfattr --absolute-names -d -m '^trusted.overlay.(redirect|metacopy)$' $file | sed 's/^trusted/user/' | _setfattr_restore --restore=-
for xattr in `_getfattr --absolute-names -d -m '^trusted.overlay.' $file | tail -n +2 | cut -d= -f1`; do
$SETFATTR_PROG -x $xattr $file;
done
diff --git a/common/populate b/common/populate
index 1c0dd03e..f7fcd0c3 100644
--- a/common/populate
+++ b/common/populate
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ __populate_create_attr() {
echo "# file: ${name}";
seq --format "user.%08g=\"abcdefgh\"" 0 "${nr}"
echo
- ) | setfattr --restore -
+ ) | _setfattr_restore --restore=-
test -z "${missing}" && return
seq 1 2 "${nr}" | while read d; do
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ __populate_xfs_create_btree_attr() {
seq --format "user.%08g=\"abcdefgh\"" "${nr}" "$((nr + incr + 1))"
echo "user.v$(printf "%.08d" "$nr")=\"${bigval}\""
echo
- ) | setfattr --restore -
+ ) | _setfattr_restore --restore=-
done
# ... and in the second loop we delete all the remote attrs to
diff --git a/common/rc b/common/rc
index 79189e7e..6234a580 100644
--- a/common/rc
+++ b/common/rc
@@ -132,6 +132,14 @@ _test_fsxattr_xflag()
grep -q "fsxattr.xflags.*\[.*$2.*\]" <($XFS_IO_PROG -c "stat -v" "$1")
}
+_setfattr_restore()
+{
+ $SETFATTR_PROG "$@" 2> $tmp.setfattr.$$
+ local ret=$?
+ cat $tmp.setfattr.$$ | sed -e '/--restore=.*unsafe.*without/d' 1>&2
+ return $ret
+}
+
# This test requires extsize support on the filesystem
_require_scratch_extsize()
{
diff --git a/tests/generic/062 b/tests/generic/062
index 89659040..3ef96da1 100755
--- a/tests/generic/062
+++ b/tests/generic/062
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ _create_test_bed
_extend_test_bed
echo "*** restore everything"
-setfattr -h --restore=$tmp.backup1
+_setfattr_restore -h --restore=$tmp.backup1 2>&1 | _filter_scratch
_backup $tmp.backup2
echo "AFTER RESTORE" >>$seqres.full
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-13 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-10 19:53 [PATCH] xfs/083: redirect populate stderr to avoid spurious attr restore warnings Avinesh Kumar
2026-07-10 23:46 ` Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-13 13:52 ` Avinesh Kumar [this message]
2026-07-13 16:14 ` [PATCH v2] common: strip attr 2.6.0 --restore safety warnings Darrick J. Wong
2026-07-13 19:21 ` Avinesh Kumar
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