linux-kernel - Re: [NFS] [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Ensure we support selinux xattrs

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Message-Id: <1169671203.6280.26.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:03 -0800
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Jim Meyering <meyering@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Ensure we support selinux xattrs

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:29 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think you want to just set the incore inode security state on
> > the client side, as that won't be preserved.
> 
> I agree. The fix seems much worse than the problem.
> 
> It doesn't seem to be a kernel bug (except insofar that you can argue that 
> enabling ACL's at all is a bug), and it also doesn't look like a 
> regression.

Fair enough. Please drop this patch then.

Trond
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