linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/13] sysfs: Update sysfs_setxattr so it updates secdata under the sysfs

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Message-ID: <m1hbtb6yu7.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:13:52 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...et.ca>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] sysfs: Update sysfs_setxattr so it updates secdata under the sysfs_mutex

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com> writes:
>
> Gah, sorry.

No prob.

> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>
>
> (as an aside, I can't see any reason to not just return if strncmp(name,
> XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,) above to avoid a level of indent and needless gotos)

Sounds like it is worth a patch.  For now I'm concentrating on getting
this patchset merged, and extraneous cleanups have a way of dragging
the process out beyond what time I have to give.

Eric
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