Re: [PATCH 3/5] kernfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers

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On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 12:45:53PM +0200, Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> 2016-04-30 19:02 GMT+02:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 04:18:35PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> >> Unlike with most other filesystems, xattrs in kernfs are attached to the
> >> dentries (dentry->d_fsdata).  Once security modules start calling get
> >> xattr handlers with a NULL dentry (because of an unknown dentry), we'll
> >> have to start check for that in kernfs_xattr_get.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Note, I'm not the only maintainer of kernfs...
> 
> Hmm, that isn't clear from the MAINTAINERS file:
> 
> DRIVER CORE, KOBJECTS, DEBUGFS, KERNFS AND SYSFS
> M:      Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> T:      git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core.git
> S:      Supported
> F:      Documentation/kobject.txt
> F:      drivers/base/
> F:      fs/debugfs/
> F:      fs/kernfs/
> F:      fs/sysfs/
> F:      include/linux/debugfs.h
> F:      include/linux/kobj*
> F:      lib/kobj*

Ah, sneaky Tejun, he didn't put his name on it, but if you use
get_maintainer.pl he should show up :)

thanks,

greg k-h

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