On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 10:55 +0800, RChan wrote:
> I'm getting
>
> post_create: setxattr failed, rc=1 (dev=hdb2 ino=471266)
>
> errors with a JFS filesystem so SELinux (fixfiles) isn't working well.
> I'm running
> fixfiles restore /u01
>
> Kernel: Fedora Core 4 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> with
>
> CONFIG_JFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_JFS_POSIX_ACL=y
> CONFIG_JFS_SECURITY=y
> # CONFIG_JFS_DEBUG is not set
> # CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS is not set
> CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
>
> Filesystem is mounted with xattr
> SELinux: initialized (dev hdb2, type jfs), uses xattr
>
> Any ideas?
Could there be symbolic links involved? This problem had been reported,
but I failed to get the patch into the kernel. Here it is.
diff -Nurp linux-2.6.12-rc4/fs/jfs/xattr.c linux/fs/jfs/xattr.c
--- linux-2.6.12-rc4/fs/jfs/xattr.c 2005-03-02 01:38:37.000000000 -0600
+++ linux/fs/jfs/xattr.c 2005-05-24 14:24:37.000000000 -0500
@@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ static int can_set_xattr(struct inode *i
if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
return -EROFS;
- if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+ if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
return -EPERM;
if(strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN) == 0)
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center
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