Re: [PATCH] erofs: avoid duplicated permission check for "trusted." xattrs

From: Chao Yu
Date: Tue Aug 11 2020 - 22:01:11 EST


On 2020/8/11 15:00, Gao Xiang wrote:
Don't recheck it since xattr_permission() already
checks CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.

Just follow 5d3ce4f70172 ("f2fs: avoid duplicated permission check for "trusted." xattrs")

Reported-by: Hongyu Jin <hongyu.jin@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Gao Xiang: since it could cause some complex Android overlay
permission issue as well on android-5.4+, so it'd be better to
backport to 5.4+ rather than pure cleanup on mainline. ]
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.4+
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,