[LUCID][PATCH] UBUNTU: enforce CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y

Chase Douglas chase.douglas at canonical.com
Wed May 5 18:58:36 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Chase Douglas
<chase.douglas at canonical.com> wrote:
> SRU Jusitification:
>
> Impact: Without this change, a flavour may be created without
> POSIX ACL support in /dev. This prevents some devices from
> functioning.
>
> How Addressed: The change adds an enforcement statement.
>
> Regression Potential: This is a build system change, so as
> long as the kernel builds there is no regression.
>
> =====
>
> Some /dev nodes, like /dev/dsp, require POSIX ACLs. This change
> enforces this setting.
>
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575940
>
> Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas at canonical.com>
> ---
>  debian/config/enforce |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/debian/config/enforce b/debian/config/enforce
> index 8180e94..80be985 100644
> --- a/debian/config/enforce
> +++ b/debian/config/enforce
> @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ value CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS n
>  value CONFIG_DEVTMPFS y
>  value CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT y
>
> +# some /dev nodes require POSIX ACLs, like /dev/dsp
> +value CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL y
> +
>  # Ramdisk size should be a minimum of 64M
>  value CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE 65536
>
> --
> 1.7.0.4

Please consider for Maverick as well.

Thanks,

-- Chase




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