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SubjectRe: patch: ext2 flags handling
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Juan Carlos Castro y Castro <jcastro@appi.com.br> writes:

|> Jes Sorensen wrote:
|>
|> > Hi
|> >
|> > There is a bug in the ext2 flags handling it seems. The xor trick it
|> > uses doesn't work since ATTR_FLAG_APPEND != EXT_APPEND_FL and
|> > ATTR_FLAG_IMMUTABLE != EXT2_IMMUTABLE_FL.
|> >
|> > This one is actually from Andreas (credit where credit is due).
|> >
|> > Jes
|>
|> Uh, BTW, what are the possible ill effects of this bug?

I don't think that it has any ill effects. It only means that an inode
that is marked immutable or append-only can have all its other attributes
only be changed by a user capable of CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE, but I think this
is already enforced by the VFS anyway.

Andreas.

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schwab@suse.de completely different."
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