From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Gerard Neil <xyzzy@devferret.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix user.* xattr permission check for sticky dirs
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:14:15 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162487655.18730.2.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0611021759390.24554@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 17:59 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> >The user.* extended attributes are only allowed on regular files and
> >directories. Sticky directories further restrict write access to the
> >owner and privileged users. (See the attr(5) man page for an
> >explanation.)
> >
>
> Does this effect ACL handling for sticky dirs in any way?
No. xattr_permission (which this patch hits) always returns 0 for
system.* attributes and leaves it to the file system to handle.
Shaggy
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-02 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-02 16:24 Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-11-02 16:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-02 17:14 ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]
2006-11-02 19:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-02 21:51 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2006-11-03 4:57 ` Timothy Shimmin
2006-11-03 8:38 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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