From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752039AbXAXUlP (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:41:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752066AbXAXUlO (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:41:14 -0500 Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:29623 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752039AbXAXUlN (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:41:13 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.13,233,1167638400"; d="scan'208"; a="24980621:sNHT14675444" Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 3/3] NFS: Ensure we support selinux xattrs From: Trond Myklebust To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stephen Smalley , Andrew Morton , Jim Meyering , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Eric Paris , James Morris , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: References: <20070124195307.21259.64156.stgit@lade.trondhjem.org> <20070124195457.21259.53047.stgit@lade.trondhjem.org> <1169669288.15390.155.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Network Appliance Inc Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:40:03 -0800 Message-Id: <1169671203.6280.26.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 24 Jan 2007 20:42:02.0220 (UTC) FILETIME=[19E49AC0:01C73FF8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 12:29 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > > > I don't think you want to just set the incore inode security state on > > the client side, as that won't be preserved. > > I agree. The fix seems much worse than the problem. > > It doesn't seem to be a kernel bug (except insofar that you can argue that > enabling ACL's at all is a bug), and it also doesn't look like a > regression. Fair enough. Please drop this patch then. Trond