On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 05:05:26PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > That people get confused between the attr used by the xattr syscall > > interface and the attr used to store things on disk or the protocol. > > This has happened every time we have non-native support, e.g. XFS, NFS, > > CIFS, ntfs, etc. And it's only going to become worse. > > How has that confusion caused problems in practice? We had all kinds of bugs in this area that were only slowly uncovered. We also had all kind of privilegue escalations with (non-ACLs) xattrs as people never grasped the way different free-form namespaces have different permission checking. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
