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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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
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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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