Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:12:35 -0700 | From | Casey Schaufler <> | Subject | Re: tmpfs support of xattrs? |
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Rob MacKinnon wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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
We aims to please. Thank you for the work you put in. That, and everyone who jumped in to help identify the problem.
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