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regarding fakeroot: flistxattr can not list xattrs set up in fakeroot
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Package: fakeroot
Version: 1.38.1-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
I am an Arch Linux user and I confirmed that the following bug applies
to the latest fakeroot source code.
This is a regression bug introduced by commit 9613bbb4, which
pass through flistxattr syscall to underlying file system even though
some xattr is set up in fakeroot container. I attached a script to
demonstrate the issue: when packaging software, packaging helper may
setcap on a file in container, which is emulated; getcap on that file is
OK, due to fakeroot emulation filters user xattrs, so capabilities are
emulated correctly and getcap can print the cap set. However, flistxattr
is not filtered and returns immediately if underlying file system xattr
query does not fail, leading to capabilities drop.
If the problem exists, y.tar does not contain PaxHeader/y at the header
as no xattr is found. I think fakeroot should fall back to emulate
xattrs if the underlying file in file system does not contain any xattr?
-- Script to reproduce:
#!/bin/sh
id
mkdir -p /tmp/tst-setcap
cd /tmp/tst-setcap
touch y
chmod +x y
setcap cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw+ep y
getcap y
bsdtar -cvaf y.tar y
xxd y.tar | head
-- System Information:
This bug is observed in downstream distribution: Arch Linux
uname: Linux aRchOG 7.0.5-arch1-1-g14 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed, 13 May 2026
18:07:58 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Downstream package version: core/fakeroot: 1.38.1-1
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: fakeroot
Source-Version: 2.1-1
Done: Clint Adams <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fakeroot, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Clint Adams <[email protected]> (supplier of updated fakeroot package)
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Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:29:07 -0400
Source: fakeroot
Architecture: source
Version: 2.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Clint Adams <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Clint Adams <[email protected]>
Closes: 855662 1099747 1101744 1138512
Changes:
fakeroot (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* New upstream version.
- Includes man page markup fixes from Bjarni Ingi
Gislason. closes: #1099747.
- Patch from Yann Dirson to fix -s and -i handling
of spaces in filenames. closes: #1101744.
- {f,l,}listxattr no longer short-circuit if real
xattrs are empty. closes: #1138512.
- Might handle msgrcv errors better, possibly
closes: #855662.
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