Re: [PATCH 1/2] ubifs: Remove dead xattr code

From: Artem Bityutskiy
Date: Thu Aug 20 2015 - 02:43:18 EST


On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 10:48 +0800, Dongsheng Yang wrote:
> On 08/20/2015 04:35 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> > This is a partial revert of commit
> > d7f0b70d30ffb9bbe6b8a3e1035cf0b79965ef53
> > ("UBIFS: Add security.* XATTR support for the UBIFS").
>
> Hi Richard,
> What about a full reverting of this commit. In ubifs, we
> *can* support any namespace of xattr including user, trusted,
> security
> or other anyone prefixed by any words. But we have a
> check_namespace()
> in xattr.c to limit what we want to support. That said, if we want to
> "Add security.* XATTR support for the UBIFS", what we need to do is
> just extending the check_namespace() to allow security namespace
> pass.
> And yes, check_namespace() have been supporting security namespace.
>
> So, IMHO, we do not depend on the generic mechanism at all, and we
> can
> fully revert this commit.

We just weren't careful enough.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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