Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix listxattr() for generic security attributes | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Thu, 08 Dec 2005 11:35:21 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 16:13 +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: > Commit f549d6c18c0e8e6cf1bf0e7a47acc1daf7e2cec1 introduced a generic fallback > for security xattrs, but appears to include a subtle bug. > > Gentoo users with kernels with selinux compiled in, and coreutils compiled > with acl support, noticed that they could not copy files on tmpfs using 'cp'. > > cp (compiled with acl support) copies the file, lists the extended attributes > on the old file, copies them all to the new file, and then exits. However the > listxattr() calls were failing with this odd behaviour: > > llistxattr("a.out", (nil), 0) = 17 > llistxattr("a.out", 0x7fffff8c6cb0, 17) = -1 ERANGE (Numerical result out of > range) > > I believe this is a simple problem in the logic used to check the buffer > sizes; if the user sends a buffer the exact size of the data, then its ok :) > > This patch solves the problem. Please apply for 2.6.15. > More info can be found at http://bugs.gentoo.org/113138 > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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