On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 11:28 AM Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2021-06-17 at 07:09 +0000, Roberto Sassu wrote: ... > > An alternative would be to do the EVM verification twice if the > > first time didn't succeed (with vfs_getxattr_alloc() and with the > > new function that behaves like vfs_getxattr()). > > Unfortunately, I don't see an alternative. ... and while unfortunate, the impact should be non-existant if you are using the right tools to label files or ensuring that you are formatting labels properly if doing it by hand. Handling a corner case is good, but I wouldn't add a lot of code complexity trying to optimize it. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com
