Re: [PATCH bpf-next 2/2] selftests/bpf: Extend test fs_kfuncs to cover security.bpf xattr names

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 04:51:37PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > 
> > I think that getting user.* xattrs from bpf hooks can still be useful for
> > introspection and other tasks so I'm not convinced we should revert that
> > functionality but maybe it is too easy to misuse? I'm not really decided.
> 
> Reading user.* xattr is fine. If an LSM decides to built a security
> model around it then imho that's their business and since that happens
> in out-of-tree LSM programs: shrug.

By that argument user.kfuncs is even more useless as just being able
to read all xattrs should be just as fine.




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