On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:58:01 +0300
Alexander Tsoy <alexan...@tsoy.me> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 19:47:59 +0800
> Jason Zaman <perfin...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 07:38:43AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> > > On 10/15/15 7:24 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Jason Zaman
> > > > <perfin...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > >> Can you try this:
> > > >>
> > > >> # getfattr -d -m- /bin/ping
> > > >> security.capability=0sAQAAAgAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
> > > >> # setfattr -n user.test -v "foo" ./ping
> > > >> # setfattr -n user.pax.flags -v "me" ./ping
> > > >> # getfattr -d -m- /bin/ping
> > > >> security.capability=0sAQAAAgAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
> > > >> user.pax.flags="me"
> > > >> user.test="foo"
> > > >>
> > > >> If this works then something else is causing those messages and
> > > >> we should look into it further.
> > > > This behaves exactly as described above for me on btrfs, but I
> > > > still do get all the error messages whenever I install stuff.
> > > >
> > > > I assume the extra attributes are harmless and will get removed
> > > > the next time I update ping?
> > > >
> > > okay its good to know that that this does work.  something might
> > > be misconfigured on tobias's box.
> > > 
> > > let me know any problems with XATTR_PAX markings because that's
> > > going to become the default soon and in the near future the only
> > > option once we drop the PT_PAX patch from binutils.
> > 
> > I seem to recall something about PaX enabling user.* xattrs on tmpfs
> > and mainline kernel supports only security.* on tmpfs. Could that be
> > the cause? If that is the case then what do we do about everyone
> > that is using gentoo-sources? It probably doesnt matter so just
> > silencing the errors is probably enough.
> > 
> 
> I was wrong. This patch was not merged upstream. It is still needed
> and included in latest genpatches for 4.2:
> 
> $ tar tf genpatches-4.2-6.base.tar.xz | grep XATTR
> ./1500_XATTR_USER_PREFIX.patch
> 

Oops.. Sorry, I replied on the wrong message. This was intended for
Tobias.

-- 
Alexander Tsoy

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