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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: Chuck Lever <chucklever@gmail.com>
Cc: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>,
	Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/35] user xattr support (RFC8276)
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 22:01:32 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191104030132.GD26578@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18D2845F-27FF-4EDF-AB8A-E6051FA03DF0@gmail.com>

On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 03:55:09PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On Oct 24, 2019, at 7:15 PM, Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com> wrote:
> > I think both of these are cases of being careful. E.g. don't enable
> > something by default and allow it to be disabled at runtime in
> > case something goes terribly wrong.
> > 
> > I didn't have any other reasons, really. I'm happy do to away with
> > the CONFIG options if that's the consensus, as well as the
> > nouser_xattr export option.
> 
> I have similar patches adding support for access to a couple of
> security xattrs. I initially wrapped the new code with CONFIG
> but after some discussion it was decided there was really no
> need to be so cautious.
> 
> The user_xattr export option is a separate matter, but again,
> if we don't know of a use case for it, I would leave it out for
> the moment.

Agreed.

Do ext4, xfs, etc. have an option to turn off xattrs?  If so, maybe it
would be good enough to turn off xattrs on the exported filesystem
rathre than on the export.

If not, maybe that's a sign that hasn't been a need.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-04  3:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-12 17:25 [RFC PATCH 00/35] user xattr support (RFC8276) Frank van der Linden
2019-07-01 17:56 ` [RFC PATCH 02/35] nfs/nfsd: basic NFS4 extended attribute definitions Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 21:38 ` [RFC PATCH 03/35] NFSv4.2: query the server for extended attribute support Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 21:53 ` [RFC PATCH 04/35] nfs: parse the {no}user_xattr option Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 22:06 ` [RFC PATCH 05/35] NFSv4.2: define a function to compute the maximum XDR size for listxattr Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 22:23 ` [RFC PATCH 06/35] NFSv4.2: define and set initial limits for extended attributes Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 22:32 ` [RFC PATCH 07/35] NFSv4.2: define argument and response structures for xattr operations Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 22:44 ` [RFC PATCH 08/35] NFSv4.2: define the encode/decode sizes for the XATTR operations Frank van der Linden
2019-08-26 23:09 ` [RFC PATCH 09/35] NFSv4.2: define and use extended attribute overhead sizes Frank van der Linden
2019-08-27 15:34 ` [RFC PATCH 10/35] NFSv4.2: add client side XDR handling for extended attributes Frank van der Linden
2019-08-27 15:46 ` [RFC PATCH 11/35] nfs: define nfs_access_get_cached function Frank van der Linden
2019-08-27 16:01 ` [RFC PATCH 12/35] NFSv4.2: query the extended attribute access bits Frank van der Linden
2019-08-27 22:51 ` [RFC PATCH 13/35] nfs: modify update_changeattr to deal with regular files Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 22:48 ` [RFC PATCH 14/35] nfs: define and use the NFS_INO_INVALID_XATTR flag Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 22:56 ` [RFC PATCH 15/35] nfs: make the buf_to_pages_noslab function available to the nfs code Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 23:15 ` [RFC PATCH 16/35] NFSv4.2: add the extended attribute proc functions Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 23:31 ` [RFC PATCH 17/35] NFSv4.2: hook in the user extended attribute handlers Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 23:38 ` [RFC PATCH 18/35] NFSv4.2: add client side xattr caching functions Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 23:45 ` [RFC PATCH 19/35] NFSv4.2: call the xattr cache functions Frank van der Linden
2019-08-30 23:59 ` [RFC PATCH 20/35] nfs: add the NFS_V4_XATTR config option Frank van der Linden
2019-08-31  2:12 ` [RFC PATCH 21/35] xattr: modify vfs_{set,remove}xattr for NFS server use Frank van der Linden
2019-08-31 19:00 ` [RFC PATCH 22/35] nfsd: split off the write decode code in to a seperate function Frank van der Linden
2019-08-31 19:19 ` [RFC PATCH 23/35] nfsd: add defines for NFSv4.2 extended attribute support Frank van der Linden
2019-08-31 21:35 ` [RFC PATCH 26/35] nfsd: add structure definitions for xattr requests / responses Frank van der Linden
2019-08-31 23:53 ` [RFC PATCH 24/35] nfsd: define xattr functions to call in to their vfs counterparts Frank van der Linden
2019-09-01  0:13 ` [RFC PATCH 25/35] nfsd: take xattr access bits in to account when checking Frank van der Linden
2019-09-01  1:19 ` [RFC PATCH 27/35] nfsd: implement the xattr procedure functions Frank van der Linden
2019-09-01  2:46 ` [RFC PATCH 01/35] nfsd: make sure the nfsd4_ops array has the right size Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 19:40 ` [RFC PATCH 28/35] nfsd: define xattr reply size functions Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 19:58 ` [RFC PATCH 29/35] nfsd: add xattr XDR decode functions Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 20:09 ` [RFC PATCH 30/35] nfsd: add xattr XDR encode functions Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 20:19 ` [RFC PATCH 31/35] nfsd: add xattr operations to ops array Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 20:34 ` [RFC PATCH 32/35] xattr: add a function to check if a namespace is supported Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 21:30 ` [RFC PATCH 33/35] nfsd: add fattr support for user extended attributes Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 23:06 ` [RFC PATCH 34/35] nfsd: add export flag to disable " Frank van der Linden
2019-09-02 23:17 ` [RFC PATCH 35/35] nfsd: add NFSD_V4_XATTR config option Frank van der Linden
2019-10-24 20:16 ` [RFC PATCH 00/35] user xattr support (RFC8276) Chuck Lever
2019-10-24 23:15   ` Frank van der Linden
2019-10-25 19:55     ` Chuck Lever
2019-11-04  3:01       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2019-11-04 15:36         ` Chuck Lever
2019-11-04 16:21           ` Frank van der Linden
2019-11-04 22:58             ` Bruce Fields
2019-11-05  0:06               ` Frank van der Linden
2019-11-05 15:44               ` Chuck Lever

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