All of the different xattr namespaces have different rules.
user.* and ACL's are not allowed on symlinks, and since these were the
first xattrs implemented, I assumed there was no need to support xattrs
on symlinks. This one-line patch should fix it.
Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
if (IS_RDONLY(inode))
return -EROFS;
- if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+ if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
return -EPERM;
if(strncmp(name, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX, XATTR_SYSTEM_PREFIX_LEN) == 0)