# Re: \[PATCH 2/2\] security.capability: fix conversions on getxattr

- From: Miklos Szeredi \<miklos@szeredi.hu\>
- Date: 2021-01-28 20:39:41 
- List: linux-security-module
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-security-module/2021/01/198855
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fsdevel/2021/01/198854/t.md

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On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 9:24 PM Eric W. Biederman [ref] wrote:

> <aside>
> From our previous discussions I would also argue it would be good
> if there was a bypass that skipped all conversions if the reader
> and the filesystem are in the same user namespace.
> </aside>

That's however just an optimization (AFAICS) that only makes sense if
it helps a read world workload.   I'm not convinced that that's the
case.

Thanks,
Miklos
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