Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Nov 2006 11:27:41 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Fix user.* xattr permission check for sticky dirs |
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On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 17:24:02 +0100 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:
> The user.* extended attributes are only allowed on regular files and > directories. Sticky directories further restrict write access to the > owner and privileged users. (See the attr(5) man page for an > explanation.) > > The original check in ext2/ext3 when user.* xattrs were merged was more > restrictive than intended, and when the xattr permission checks were moved > into the VFS, read access to user.* attributes on sticky directores ended up > being denied in addition.
Am struggling to understand the impact of this. I assume this problem was introduced on Jan 9 by e0ad7b073eb7317e5afe0385b02dcb1d52a1eedf "move xattr permission checks into the VFS"?
If so, the fix is applicable to 2.6.18, 2.6.19 and of course 2.6.20.
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