Quoting James Morris (jmorris@xxxxxxxxx): > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, David P. Quigley wrote: > > > Originally vfs_getxattr would pull the security xattr variable using > > the inode getxattr handle and then proceed to clobber it with a subsequent call > > to the LSM. This patch reorders the two operations such that when the xattr > > requested is in the security namespace it first attempts to grab the value from > > the LSM directly. If it fails to obtain the value because there is no module > > present or the module does not support the operation it will fall back to using > > the inode getxattr operation. In the event that both are inaccessible it > > returns EOPNOTSUPP. > > > > Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> (not that it matters much, esp with selinux being the only current user, but) Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> Makes sense and looks good. thanks, -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
