Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 4 authors, 2016-03-06

Re: [PATCH 9/9] libext2fs: sort keys for xattr blocks

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: 2016-03-06 03:55:20
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

On Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 02:38:24PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
Richard Purdie reports that libext2fs doesn't sort attribute keys in
the xattr block correctly, causing the kernel to return -ENODATA when
querying attributes that should be there.  Therefore, sort attributes
so that whatever ends up in the xattr block is sorted according to
what the kernel expects.

Cc: Darren Hart <redacted>
Reported-by: Richard Purdie <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <redacted>
Applied, with one minor change.  You should never use something like
/tmp/b in a test script becuase it's possible that /tmp/b might
already exist, and might be not even owned by the user.  (In my case
/tmp/b was a root owned file that was sufficiently big that it it
caused ea_set command to fail with a "out of space" error.)

If /tmp/b was writable by the user and was something previous, then
the developer might get after the test script executes "rm -rf /tmp/b".

						- Ted
diff --git a/tests/d_xattr_sorting/script b/tests/d_xattr_sorting/script
index 30c189a..30187f1 100644
--- a/tests/d_xattr_sorting/script
+++ b/tests/d_xattr_sorting/script
@@ -17,16 +17,18 @@ $MKE2FS -Fq $TMPFILE 512 > /dev/null 2>&1
 status=$?
 echo Exit status is $status >> $OUT
 
-perl -e 'print "x" x 256;' > /tmp/b
+B=$(mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/b.XXXXXX)
+
+perl -e 'print "x" x 256;' > $B
 
 echo "ea_set / security.SMEG64 -f /tmp/b" > $OUT.new
-$DEBUGFS -w -R "ea_set / security.SMEG64 -f /tmp/b" $TMPFILE >> $OUT.new 2>&1
+$DEBUGFS -w -R "ea_set / security.SMEG64 -f $B" $TMPFILE >> $OUT.new 2>&1
 status=$?
 echo Exit status is $status >> $OUT.new
 sed -f $cmd_dir/filter.sed $OUT.new >> $OUT
 
 echo "ea_set / security.imb -f /tmp/b" > $OUT.new
-$DEBUGFS -w -R "ea_set / security.imb -f /tmp/b" $TMPFILE >> $OUT.new 2>&1
+$DEBUGFS -w -R "ea_set / security.imb -f $B" $TMPFILE >> $OUT.new 2>&1
 status=$?
 echo Exit status is $status >> $OUT.new
 sed -f $cmd_dir/filter.sed $OUT.new >> $OUT
@@ -37,7 +39,8 @@ status=$?
 echo Exit status is $status >> $OUT.new
 sed -f $cmd_dir/filter.sed $OUT.new >> $OUT
 
-rm -rf /tmp/b
+rm -f $B
+unset B
 
 echo "ea_list /" > $OUT.new
 $DEBUGFS -w -R "ea_list /" $TMPFILE >> $OUT.new 2>&1
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