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From: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
To: Clay Harris <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>, Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/5] io_uring: add xattr support
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 13:05:54 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

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On Dec 1, 2021, at 12:52 PM, Clay Harris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 01 2021 at 13:19:03 +0100, Stefan Metzmacher quoth thus:
>> 
>> What's with lsetxattr and lgetxattr, why are they missing.
> Do any filesystems even support xattrs on symbolic links?

Yes, ext4 does.  There are definitely security xattrs on symlinks that
need to be accessed and changed.

Cheers, Andreas






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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-01 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-29 22:12 [PATCH v1 0/5] io_uring: add xattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-11-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] fs: make user_path_at_empty() take a struct filename Stefan Roesch
2021-11-30  2:09   ` kernel test robot
2021-11-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] fs: split off setxattr_setup function from setxattr Stefan Roesch
2021-11-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] fs: split off the vfs_getxattr from getxattr Stefan Roesch
2021-11-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] io_uring: add fsetxattr and setxattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-11-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] io_uring: add fgetxattr and getxattr support Stefan Roesch
2021-11-30  1:08 ` [PATCH v1 0/5] io_uring: add xattr support Clay Harris
2021-11-30  3:16   ` Andreas Dilger
2021-11-30  6:37     ` Clay Harris
2021-11-30  6:53       ` Clay Harris
2021-11-30 11:40         ` Clay Harris
2021-11-30  7:19     ` Dave Chinner
2021-12-01  6:16     ` Stefan Roesch
2021-12-01  6:07   ` Stefan Roesch
2021-12-01  7:46     ` Clay Harris
2021-12-01 13:14       ` Christian Brauner
2021-12-01 12:19     ` Stefan Metzmacher
2021-12-01 19:52       ` Clay Harris
2021-12-01 20:05         ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2021-12-03 17:58       ` Stefan Roesch

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