Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] Correct behavior for listxattr and 'trusted'xattrs

[James Morris]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Now that everyone felt the consensus is that we need the check I look
> into adding it into XFS, but it seems like we already have that check
> in xfs_xattr_put_listent:
> 
> 	/*
>          * Only show root namespace entries if we are actually allowed to
> 	 * see them.
> 	 */
> 	if ((flags & XFS_ATTR_ROOT) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> 		return 0;
> 

Looks like I didn't understand what the XFS code was doing.


- James
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