Quoting James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Mon, 22 Oct 2007, David P. Quigley wrote: > > > Originally vfs_getxattr would pull the security xattr variable using > > the inode getxattr handle and then proceed to clobber it with a subsequent > > call > > to the LSM. This patch reorders the two operations such that when the xattr > > requested is in the security namespace it first attempts to grab the value > > from > > the LSM directly. If it fails to obtain the value because there is no module > > present or the module does not support the operation it will fall back to > > using > > the inode getxattr operation. In the event that both are inaccessible it > > returns EOPNOTSUPP. > > > > Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Acked-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(not that it matters much, esp with selinux being the only current user, but) Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Makes sense and looks good. thanks, -serge - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
