Re: Possible issue with linux xattr support?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 11:20:39AM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> * Dmitry Chagin <dchagin@freebsd.org> [20230830 11:57]:
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 08:58:13PM +0200, Felix Palmen wrote:
> > > Thanks again for quickly fixing this! Can this still make 14.0-RELEASE?
> > > 
> > I think yes, thanks for testing, I revised the error handling and made
> > it more precise, can you test new patch in your environment.
> > 
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~dchagin/xattr.patch
> 
> Great, thanks! I see you now chose to add a jail option, certainly the
> cleanest solution.
> 
> Will test later today. Just to make sure I have the correct expectation
> about the behavior with the new patch applied:
> 
> * Unprivileged user will get ENOTSUP when trying to access the system
>   namespace (regardless of the new jail setting), so GNU tools like e.g.
>   coreutils install should "just work".
ENOTSUP or ENODATA (getxattr)

> * Root will get either ENOTSUP, or a fully working access to system.*
>   with the new jail setting enabled.
> 
> Are these assumptions correct?
> 
yes