[apparmor] [patch] use seperate fs with user_xattr for xattr regression tests

John Johansen john.johansen at canonical.com
Thu Sep 30 09:47:02 BST 2010


On 09/29/2010 11:02 PM, Steve Beattie wrote:
> This patch modifies the xattr regression test to use a separate loopback
> mounted filesystem to operate on, to guarantee that the mount option
> user_xattr is enabled (it's disabled by default on Ubuntu).
> 
> With this change, a number of the user xattr testcases that were
> expected to pass but weren't started working; however, some of the ones
> that were failing as expected are now passing. I've touched up the
> expectations as well.
> 
> After this patch is applied, the number of testcases in it that are not
> matching their expected result is still annoyingly high:
> 
right, this is do to a change in what can be mediated with respect to
xattrs since the rewrite.  We need to get some new hooks upstream before
we will be able to address these failures.



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