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[2/1] man-pages: xattr.7: Update text for user extended xattr behavior change

Message ID YTDwCFbO9Jl6a7vP@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Relax restrictions on user.* xattr | expand

Commit Message

Vivek Goyal Sept. 2, 2021, 3:38 p.m. UTC 
I have proposed a patch to relax restrictions on user extended xattrs and
allow file owner (or CAP_FOWNER) to get/set user extended xattrs on symlink
and device files.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
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 man7/xattr.7 |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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Index: man-pages/man7/xattr.7
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--- man-pages.orig/man7/xattr.7	2021-09-01 13:46:16.165016463 -0400
+++ man-pages/man7/xattr.7	2021-09-01 16:31:51.038016463 -0400
@@ -129,8 +129,13 @@  a way not controllable by disk quotas fo
 special files and directories.
 .PP
 For this reason,
-user extended attributes are allowed only for regular files and directories,
-and access to user extended attributes is restricted to the
+user extended attributes are allowed only for regular files and directories
+till kernel 5.14. In newer kernel (5.15 onwards), restrictions have been
+relaxed a bit and user extended attributes are also allowed on symlinks
+and special files as long as caller is either owner of the file or is
+privileged (CAP_FOWNER).
+
+Access to user extended attributes is restricted to the
 owner and to users with appropriate capabilities for directories with the
 sticky bit set (see the
 .BR chmod (1)