From: Dave Kleikamp Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:07:53 +0000 (-0500) Subject: JFS: Allow security.* xattrs to be set on symlinks X-Git-Tag: MMI-PSA29.97-13-9~56759^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6211502d7ee9e515e4458d0c0ebfbb70553dc7de;p=GitHub%2FMotorolaMobilityLLC%2Fkernel-slsi.git JFS: Allow security.* xattrs to be set on symlinks All of the different xattr namespaces have different rules. user.* and ACL's are not allowed on symlinks, and since these were the first xattrs implemented, I assumed there was no need to support xattrs on symlinks. This one-line patch should fix it. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp --- diff --git a/fs/jfs/xattr.c b/fs/jfs/xattr.c index ee438d429d45..fdd8f3f5a72f 100644 --- a/fs/jfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/jfs/xattr.c @@ -781,7 +781,7 @@ static int can_set_xattr(struct inode *inode, const char *name, if (IS_RDONLY(inode)) return -EROFS; - if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) + if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode)) return -EPERM; if(strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN) == 0)