Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on sysfsfiles, directories, and symlinks.

[Casey Schaufler]

David P. Quigley wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 18:13 +1000, James Morris wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, David P. Quigley wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Looking more closely at the problem I was mistaken. I was concerned with
>>> the dereferenceing of the dentry in the first line of the getxattr
>>> function but it seems that a precondition for us getting that far is
>>> that we will always have a valid dentry at that point. I'd appreciate it
>>> if the people whose code the patch touches can review the patch again
>>> and either NAK with more comments or sign off on it.
>>>       
>> Please repost them with a version number so we know exactly which patches 
>> we're looking at.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Casey is taking a shot at implementing generic xattr support for in
> memory file systems.I told him I'd wait to see the initial cut of his
> patch before going further with this.
>
>   

Work is under way. I hope to be done in a few days. No big time chunks
available unfortunately.

> Dave
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