From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: "Ozan Çağlayan" <ozan@pardus.org.tr>
Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
David Safford <safford@watson.ibm.com>,
Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] security: move LSM xattrnames to xattr.h
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:06:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1286888769.2670.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010121414.14486.ozan@pardus.org.tr>
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:14 +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> Cuma 02 Temmuz 2010 günü (saat 03:16:01) James Morris şunları yazmıştı:
> > On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > Make the security extended attributes names global. Updated to move
> > > the remaining Smack xattrs.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
> > > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
> >
>
> This drops
>
> #define XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX "capability"
> #define XATTR_NAME_CAPS XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX
>
> definitions from capability.h and puts them in xattr.h's #ifdef __KERNEL__
> section making them invisible to userspace like libcap-ng causing build
> failures.
>
> Am I wrong?
You're correct. It's the same reason that cap-ng.c has to define
'security'.
#ifdef VFS_CAP_U32
#include <attr/xattr.h>
#define XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX "security."
Am cc'ing Steve.
Mimi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-12 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 19:07 [PATCH] security: move LSM xattrnames to xattr.h Mimi Zohar
2010-07-02 0:16 ` James Morris
2010-10-12 11:14 ` Ozan Çağlayan
2010-10-12 13:06 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2010-10-12 13:19 ` Steve Grubb
2010-10-12 13:40 ` Mimi Zohar
2010-11-03 17:00 ` Steve Grubb
2010-11-03 17:38 ` Mimi Zohar
2010-11-03 17:57 ` Steve Grubb
2010-11-03 19:02 ` Eric Paris
2010-11-03 19:46 ` Steve Grubb
2010-11-03 20:26 ` Eric Paris
2010-11-03 20:45 ` Mimi Zohar
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