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Subject[PATCH 2/1] man-pages: xattr.7: Update text for user extended xattr behavior change
I have proposed a patch to relax restrictions on user extended xattrs and
allow file owner (or CAP_FOWNER) to get/set user extended xattrs on symlink
and device files.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
---
man7/xattr.7 | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: man-pages/man7/xattr.7
===================================================================
--- man-pages.orig/man7/xattr.7 2021-09-01 13:46:16.165016463 -0400
+++ man-pages/man7/xattr.7 2021-09-01 16:31:51.038016463 -0400
@@ -129,8 +129,13 @@ a way not controllable by disk quotas fo
special files and directories.
.PP
For this reason,
-user extended attributes are allowed only for regular files and directories,
-and access to user extended attributes is restricted to the
+user extended attributes are allowed only for regular files and directories
+till kernel 5.14. In newer kernel (5.15 onwards), restrictions have been
+relaxed a bit and user extended attributes are also allowed on symlinks
+and special files as long as caller is either owner of the file or is
+privileged (CAP_FOWNER).
+
+Access to user extended attributes is restricted to the
owner and to users with appropriate capabilities for directories with the
sticky bit set (see the
.BR chmod (1)
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