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From:   Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Date:   Thu, 28 Jan 2021 21:38:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] security.capability: fix conversions on getxattr
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:24 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:

> <aside>
> From our previous discussions I would also argue it would be good
> if there was a bypass that skipped all conversions if the reader
> and the filesystem are in the same user namespace.
> </aside>

That's however just an optimization (AFAICS) that only makes sense if
it helps a read world workload.   I'm not convinced that that's the
case.

Thanks,
Miklos