UBIFS assert when create new sub-dir under a transmute enabled dir with Smack enabled

[richard@xxxxxx (Richard Weinberger)]

Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2018, 17:22:30 CEST schrieb Casey Schaufler:
> >> The root cause is that the inode isn't locked during inode instantiation
> >> (from Mr.Schaufler), but we check whether inode is locked in
> >> xattr_set.
> 
> There is no need to do this check as all that
> gets done with the decision is to print the warning.
> The problem is the assumption that the inode is locked,
> which is doesn't have to be during instantiation.

I agree. Historically ubifs has a lot of (very good) asserts.
Some of them turn out to be too paranoid, like this one.

Thanks,
//richard