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Message-Id: <200805011517.55698.chris.mason@oracle.com>
Date:	Thu, 1 May 2008 15:17:55 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@...onical.com>
Cc:	jeffschroeder@...puter.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Btrfs v0.14 Released

On Thursday 01 May 2008, Tim Gardner wrote:

[ btrfs oops on ubuntu ]

> >>  This is because ubuntu kernels ship with apparmor, you'll need this
> >> patch:
> >>
> >>  If there is a #ifdef IM_A_UBUNTU_KERNEL I can use, I'll do it.  Jeff
> >> Mahoney has a similar patch for SUSE that I've been meaning to merge,
> >> but I wanted to lookup some way to check for ubuntu as well.
> >>
> >>  -chris
> >>
> >>  diff -r e7da2489b19b file.c
> >>  --- a/file.c    Wed Apr 30 13:59:35 2008 -0400
> >>  +++ b/file.c    Thu May 01 12:25:11 2008 -0400
> >>  @@ -852,7 +852,7 @@ static ssize_t btrfs_file_write(struct f
> >>                 goto out_nolock;
> >>         if (count == 0)
> >>                 goto out_nolock;
> >>  -       err = remove_suid(fdentry(file));
> >>  +       err = remove_suid(&file->f_path);
> >>         if (err)
> >>                 goto out_nolock;
> >>         file_update_time(file);
>
> Couldn't you #ifdef based on CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR ? This ought to
> work for Hardy. However the next development kernel (Intrepid) does not
> have the APPARMOR patches, so just knowing that its an UBUNTU kernel is
> not specific enough.

I've been assuming the apparmor patches change remove_suid even when they are 
not enabled in the config.

-chris
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