linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] ubifs: Remove unused security xattr handler

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvxrm1E696hSJ6GtnC-V16uWFWBU036a-Aak8PW43us69A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 14:41:12 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Cc:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	"linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@...d-net.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] ubifs: Remove unused security xattr handler

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Andreas Gruenbacher
<agruenba@...hat.com> wrote:
> Ubifs installs a security xattr handler in sb->s_xattr but doesn't use the
> generic_{get,set,list,remove}xattr inode operations needed for processing
> this list of attribute handlers; the handler is never called.  Instead,
> ubifs uses its own xattr handlers which also process security xattrs.
>
> Remove the dead code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
> Cc: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@...d-net.com>

Should this go through the ubifs tree or do you carry it?

Anyway,
Reviewed-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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