[PATCH v3 17/21] capabilities: Allow privileged user in s_user_ns to set security.* xattrs

2016-04-22 Thread Seth Forshee
A privileged user in s_user_ns will generally have the ability to manipulate the backing store and insert security.* xattrs into the filesystem directly. Therefore the kernel must be prepared to handle these xattrs from unprivileged mounts, and it makes little sense for commoncap to prevent

[PATCH v3 17/21] capabilities: Allow privileged user in s_user_ns to set security.* xattrs

2016-04-22 Thread Seth Forshee
A privileged user in s_user_ns will generally have the ability to manipulate the backing store and insert security.* xattrs into the filesystem directly. Therefore the kernel must be prepared to handle these xattrs from unprivileged mounts, and it makes little sense for commoncap to prevent