Subject: Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on
 sysfs files, directories, and symlinks.
From: "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:34:01 -0400
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On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 18:13 +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, David P. Quigley wrote:
> 
> > Looking more closely at the problem I was mistaken. I was concerned with
> > the dereferenceing of the dentry in the first line of the getxattr
> > function but it seems that a precondition for us getting that far is
> > that we will always have a valid dentry at that point. I'd appreciate it
> > if the people whose code the patch touches can review the patch again
> > and either NAK with more comments or sign off on it.
> 
> Please repost them with a version number so we know exactly which patches 
> we're looking at.
> 
> 

Casey is taking a shot at implementing generic xattr support for in
memory file systems.I told him I'd wait to see the initial cut of his
patch before going further with this.

Dave

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