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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xattr: Fix error results for non-existent / invisible attributes
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 04:09:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110620080921.GA23159@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105271450.37089.agruen@kernel.org>

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 02:50:36PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Return -ENODATA when trying to read a user.* attribute which cannot
> exist: user space otherwise does not have a reasonable way to
> distinguish between non-existent and inaccessible attributes.
> 
> Likewise, return -ENODATA when an unprivileged process tries to read a
> trusted.* attribute: to unprivileged processes, those attributes are
> invisible (listxattr() won't include them).

This breaks xfstests 062.  It would also be very useful to send VFS
patches to linux-fsdevel, btw.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-20  8:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-27 12:50 [PATCH] xattr: Fix error results for non-existent / invisible attributes Andreas Gruenbacher
2011-06-20  8:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-06-21  1:34   ` Andreas Gruenbacher

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