Re: [PATCH][-mm] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

2005-08-25 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:43 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to > fall back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem > does not support xattrs natively. This allows security modules to > export the incore inode s

Re: [PATCH][-mm] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

2005-08-25 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Stephen Smalley wrote: > Please include in -mm for wider testing prior to merging in 2.6.14. Acked-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[PATCH][-mm] Generic VFS fallback for security xattrs

2005-08-25 Thread Stephen Smalley
This patch modifies the VFS setxattr, getxattr, and listxattr code to fall back to the security module for security xattrs if the filesystem does not support xattrs natively. This allows security modules to export the incore inode security label information to userspace even if the filesystem does