Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] initramfs: introduce do_readxattrs()

Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.initramfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-api,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-integrity,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.linux-security-module
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 5/17/2019 11:10 PM, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 05:02:20PM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
>> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 01:18:11PM -0700, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> Ok... I just realized this does not work for a modular initramfs, composed at load time from multiple files, which is a very real problem. Should be easy enough to deal with: instead of one large file, use one companion file per source file, perhaps something like filename..xattrs (suggesting double dots to make it less likely to conflict with a "real" file.) No leading dot, as it makes it more likely that archivers will sort them before the file proper.
>> This version of the patch was changed from the previous one exactly to deal with this case --
>> it allows for the bootloader to load multiple initramfs archives, each
>> with its own .xattr-list file, and to have that work properly.
>> Could you elaborate on the issue that you see?
> Roberto, are you missing a changelog entry for v2->v3 change?

The changelog for v1->v2 is missing.

Thanks

Roberto

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