Problem during /init execve

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 11:39:26 EDT 2012


Hi...

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:58 PM, stl <st.lambert02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> What is the purpose of the inode->i_op->getxattr method?

I think it has something related to extended attribute

> During the boot of linux-2.6.37 on a new architecture, it crashes in the
> get_vfs_caps_from_disk() function because of the following security check,
> (in my case, this field is ot initialized).
>
> if (!inode || !inode->i_op->getxattr)
>           return -ENODATA;

May I know, what's the filesystem type that code currently checks? And
are you sure that filesystem is completely ok?

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