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From: Rob MacKinnon <c4blem0nkey@gmail.com>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: rob.mackinnon@gmail.com, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	hpa@zytor.com, hugh@veritas.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:56:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49088797.3060802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4906A871.6010501@schaufler-ca.com>

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Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Rob MacKinnon wrote:
>> Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
>>  
>>> On Monday, 27 October 2008 21:25:31 Stephen Smalley wrote:
>>>    
>>>> Looks like a bug in Smack's implementation of the inode_listsecurity
>>>> hook to me.  Did you mean to enable Smack in your kernel config?
>>>>       
>>> Yes, there is at least one bug there; this kernel is broken. You may
>>> want to try booting with a kernel command line option like
>>> "security=none", which *should* turn smack off.
>>>
>>> Andreas
>>>     
>>
>> All,
>>
>> Indeed the kernel cmdline option security=none did disable smack. So
>> atleast that works. Thank you all for helping me track this down.  I can
>> now return to updating packages (some of which have been waiting
>> patiently for this to be cleared up)!  Though I will be looking forward
>> to this feature working as it was intended. ;)  Let me know if there is
>> a bug # assigned and I'll quietly return to lurking... ;
> 
> It looks like a trivial fix and the patch is here. I have just started
> testing it myself, but if I don't send it now it will be Wednesday before
> I do. No sign-off because I haven't verified it, but I would be delighted
> if you would pass judgement on its efficacy. Thank you.
> 

All,

Applied, compiled, and tested clean on a P4 Prescott. I'll try this a
little later on my x64. Thank you for this fix, and thank you all for
just a fast response.

- -- Rob

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-29 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25  8:49 tmpfs support of xattrs? Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-25 21:59 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-10-26 12:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-10-26 13:25   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-10-27 20:14     ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-27 20:25       ` Stephen Smalley
2008-10-27 20:53         ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2008-10-27 21:12           ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-28  5:51             ` Casey Schaufler
2008-10-29 15:15               ` [PATCH] smack inode_listsecurity fix Casey Schaufler
2008-10-29 15:56               ` Rob MacKinnon [this message]
2008-10-29 16:12                 ` tmpfs support of xattrs? Casey Schaufler
2008-10-27 21:00         ` Rob MacKinnon
2008-10-27 21:54           ` Casey Schaufler
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2008-10-25  8:27 Rob MacKinnon

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