linux-kernel - Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:53:56 +0100
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	Rob MacKinnon <c4blem0nkey@...il.com>, hpa@...or.com,
	hugh@...itas.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rob.mackinnon@...il.com, Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?

On Monday, 27 October 2008 21:25:31 Stephen Smalley wrote:
> Looks like a bug in Smack's implementation of the inode_listsecurity
> hook to me.  Did you mean to enable Smack in your kernel config?

Yes, there is at least one bug there; this kernel is broken. You may want to 
try booting with a kernel command line option like "security=none", which 
*should* turn smack off.

Andreas
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