The vfs handles most permissions for setting and retrieving xattrs.
This patch removes a redundant and wrong check so that it won't override
the correct behavior which is being fixed in the vfs.
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

Removed trailing spaces & tabs, and spaces preceding tabs.
Also a couple very minor comment cleanups.
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
(cherry picked from f74156539964d7b3d5164fdf8848e6a682f75b97 commit)

Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)
Signed-off-by: NRichard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

build and boot tested.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

fs: Use <linux/capability.h> where capable() is used.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: NTim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

remove checks now in the VFS
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

The xattr code has rather complex permission checks because the rules are very
different for different attribute namespaces.  This patch moves as much as we
can into the generic code.  Currently all the major disk based filesystems
duplicate these checks, while many minor filesystems or network filesystems
lack some or all of them.

To do this we need defines for the extended attribute names in common code, I
moved them up from JFS which had the nicest defintions.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This atomically initializes the security xattr when an object is created
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

It turns out this is due to some inverted logic in xattr.c
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

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: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

This file duplicates <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>, using slightly different
names.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kfree() can handle a NULL pointer, don't worry about passing it one. 
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: NDave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!