[kernel.org bug 103071] Dead "security.*" xattr code in ubifs

[Sheng Yong]

On 8/19/2015 9:07 AM, Sheng Yong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/19/2015 4:55 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Andreas,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Andreas Grünbacher
>> <andreas.gruenbacher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> FYI, I've filed the following bug report against ubifs:
>>>
>>>> ubifs sets sb->s_xattr to ubifs_xattr_handlers which contains a handler for
>>>> "security.*" xattrs. The s_xattr handlers are never used because ubifs uses
>>>> its own ubifs_{get,set,list,remove}xattr inode operations instead of
>>>> generic_{get,set,list,remove}xattr inode operations though.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103071
>>
>> Thanks for reporting.
My bad for didn't reply at the right line :(
> This is because UBIFS did not implement extended attribute in the geneirc way
> (by calling generic_*xattr()). We could create an xattr_handler to have these
> dead functions called (in fact, I did that), but doing this seems just another
> encapsulation and makes no sense. So I think we could remove these dead code
> directly.
> 
> thanks,
> Sheng
> 
> 
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