Re: [PATCH][-mm] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

[Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>]

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:43 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to
> fall back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem
> does not support xattrs natively.  This allows security modules to
> export the incore inode security label information to userspace even
> if the filesystem does not provide xattr storage, and eliminates the
> need to individually patch various pseudo filesystem types to provide
> such access.  The patch removes the existing xattr code from devpts
> and tmpfs as it is then no longer needed.
> 
> The patch restructures the code flow slightly to reduce duplication
> between the normal path and the fallback path, but this should only
> have one user-visible side effect - a program may get -EACCES rather
> than -EOPNOTSUPP if policy denied access but the filesystem didn't
> support the operation anyway.  Note that the post_setxattr hook call
> is not needed in the fallback case, as the inode_setsecurity hook call
> handles the incore inode security state update directly.  In contrast,
> we do call fsnotify in both cases.
> 
> Please include in -mm for wider testing prior to merging in 2.6.14.
> 
> ---
> 
>  fs/Kconfig                 |   43 ----------------------
>  fs/devpts/Makefile         |    1 
>  fs/devpts/inode.c          |   21 -----------
>  fs/devpts/xattr_security.c |   47 ------------------------
>  fs/xattr.c                 |   80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>  mm/shmem.c                 |   85 ---------------------------------------------
>  6 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 228 deletions(-)

Sorry, forgot to explicitly sign off on the patch:

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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