[LTP] [xattr] 6e21a50861: ltp.setxattr02.fail

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 10:12:12AM +0200, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> Hi!
> > commit: 6e21a5086100cebefd21a3058a9e1160668f84fa ("xattr: Allow user.* xattr on symlink and special files")
> > https://github.com/rhvgoyal/linux user-xattr-symlink-v3
> 
> The test that fails is a test that asserts that you can't add extended
> attributes to a block or char device and it's obvious why this fails.
> 
> Feel free to ignore this failure, we will have to fix the tests once/if
> this patchset gets accepted upstream.

Yes, if patches get accepted, test will have to be fixed. I fixed
xfstest too in the same patch series.

But at the moment it looks like there is resistance to the idea of
allowing user.* xattrs on symlinks and special files.

Vivek

> 
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> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz
>