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Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block

From Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block
Date 2017-04-12 07:50 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 10:43:26PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Artem, do you remember why UBIFS didn't set s_uuid in first place?

It's an extremely odd field - only a hand full of file systems set it
(e.g. XFS doesn't, although according to Mimi IMA supports XFS), and
it's never even used outside of the IMA/EVM code.

We really need a feature flag that this field is valid that IMA can
check before adding more support for it.

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[PATCH v2 0/3] make ubifs compatible with IMA and EVM. Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-11 12:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-11 12:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-04-11 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-04-12 07:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block Oleksij Rempel <ore@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-12 09:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] fs: ubifs: set s_uuid in super block Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-04-24 17:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-11 12:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-04-11 18:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-04-11 23:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Oleksij Rempel <ore@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-12 08:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> - 2017-04-12 08:10 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Oleksij Rempel <ore@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-12 09:10 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] fs: ubifs: update i_version on inode changes Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2017-04-24 17:50 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/3] fs: ubifs: parse iversion mount option Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> - 2017-04-11 12:00 +0200

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