Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xattrs: Skip security.evm extended attribute

2017-01-23 Thread Stefan Berger
On 01/22/2017 09:15 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Stefan Berger mailto:stef...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>> wrote: GNU tar for example requires to use --xattrs-include=pattern to indicate which extended attributes to put into the archive. It also support --xattrs-

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xattrs: Skip security.evm extended attribute

2017-01-22 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 2:31 PM, Stefan Berger wrote: > GNU tar for example requires to use --xattrs-include=pattern to indicate > which extended attributes to put into the archive. It also support > --xattrs-exclude=pattern. Maybe something along those lines could work? > The latest git version

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xattrs: Skip security.evm extended attribute

2017-01-09 Thread Stefan Berger
On 01/06/2017 12:27 AM, L. A. Walsh wrote: Stefan Berger wrote: The security.evm extended attribute is fully owned by the Linux kernel and cannot be directly written from userspace. Therefore, we can always skip it. --- (see below "...")... Please put this on a switch or option. The secur

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xattrs: Skip security.evm extended attribute

2017-01-06 Thread L. A. Walsh
Stefan Berger wrote: The security.evm extended attribute is fully owned by the Linux kernel and cannot be directly written from userspace. Therefore, we can always skip it. --- (see below "...")... Please put this on a switch or option. The security.evm field seems only special on Manda

[PATCH v2 1/2] xattrs: Skip security.evm extended attribute

2016-12-01 Thread Stefan Berger
The security.evm extended attribute is fully owned by the Linux kernel and cannot be directly written from userspace. Therefore, we can always skip it. --- xattrs.c | 18 +- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/xattrs.c b/xattrs.c index b105392..3b72e61 100