On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 07:38:43AM -0400, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
> On 10/15/15 7:24 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Jason Zaman <perfin...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> Can you try this:
> >>
> >> # getfattr -d -m- /bin/ping
> >> security.capability=0sAQAAAgAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
> >> # setfattr -n user.test -v "foo" ./ping
> >> # setfattr -n user.pax.flags -v "me" ./ping
> >> # getfattr -d -m- /bin/ping
> >> security.capability=0sAQAAAgAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=
> >> user.pax.flags="me"
> >> user.test="foo"
> >>
> >> If this works then something else is causing those messages and we
> >> should look into it further.
> > This behaves exactly as described above for me on btrfs, but I still
> > do get all the error messages whenever I install stuff.
> >
> > I assume the extra attributes are harmless and will get removed the
> > next time I update ping?
> >
> okay its good to know that that this does work.  something might be 
> misconfigured on tobias's box.
> 
> let me know any problems with XATTR_PAX markings because that's going to 
> become the default soon and in the near future the only option once we 
> drop the PT_PAX patch from binutils.

I seem to recall something about PaX enabling user.* xattrs on tmpfs and
mainline kernel supports only security.* on tmpfs. Could that be the
cause? If that is the case then what do we do about everyone that is
using gentoo-sources? It probably doesnt matter so just silencing the
errors is probably enough.

-- Jason
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