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From: "Diego Elio Pettenò" <flameeyes@flameeyes.eu>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: fcaps.eclass: bringing filesystem capabilities to the tree
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:47:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51086DA6.5040408@flameeyes.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2013.01.29.12.14.57@cox.net>

On 29/01/2013 13:14, Duncan wrote:
> For at least reiserfs, and presumably for ext4, since it has
> similar kconfig options, *_FS_XATTR isn't enough,
> *_FS_SECURITY must be enabled as well.

Good point, even I forgot that it's part of security labels rather than
xattr strict (funnily enough, PaX wasn't last time I checked).

> Unfortunately, kernel-help for *_FS_SECURITY implies that it only needs
> to be enabled for SELinux or the like, recommending that it be disabled
> if you're not running such modules.  Is it worth filing an upstream
> mainline kernel bug on that as well, suggesting that it mention file-caps
> as well?

Most likely a good idea.

-- 
Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
flameeyes@flameeyes.eu — http://blog.flameeyes.eu/


      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-30  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-25 23:51 [gentoo-dev] fcaps.eclass: bringing filesystem capabilities to the tree Mike Frysinger
2013-01-26  0:10 ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2013-01-26  0:17   ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-26  7:46   ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-26 10:17     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-01-26 16:01     ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-26 16:13       ` Rich Freeman
2013-01-26 17:02         ` Diego Elio Pettenò
2013-01-28 19:58     ` Gilles Dartiguelongue
2013-01-26 13:21 ` Michał Górny
2013-01-26 17:08   ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-26 21:07 ` Doug Goldstein
2013-01-27 17:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2013-01-27 18:24   ` Kacper Kowalik
2013-01-29 12:14 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2013-01-30  0:47   ` Diego Elio Pettenò [this message]

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