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: v2.6.13-rc4~130^2~1 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6211502d7ee9e515e4458d0c0ebfbb70553dc7de;p=linux-2.6 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 ee438d429d..fdd8f3f5a7 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)