linux-kernel - Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:12:32 -0700
From:	Rob MacKinnon <c4blem0nkey@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...e.de>
CC:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, rob.mackinnon@...il.com,
	hpa@...or.com, hugh@...itas.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: tmpfs support of xattrs?

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 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

All,

Indeed the kernel cmdline option security=none did disable smack. So
atleast that works. Thank you all for helping me track this down.  I can
now return to updating packages (some of which have been waiting
patiently for this to be cleared up)!  Though I will be looking forward
to this feature working as it was intended. ;)  Let me know if there is
a bug # assigned and I'll quietly return to lurking... ;)

-- Rob
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