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Date:      Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:04:26 -0700
From:      Kirk McKusick <mckusick@chez.mckusick.com>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ighighi <ighighi@gmail.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, bug-followup@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kern/122047: [ext2fs] incorrect handling of UF_IMMUTABLE / UF_APPEND, flag on EXT2FS (maybe others) 
Message-ID:  <200806081904.m58J4Qg7033415@chez.mckusick.com>

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Bruce,

I concur with your analysis of what should be done here. Disallow
manipulation of UF_ flags in ext2 and restrict SF_ flags to appropriate
priviledge as is done in both FreeBSD and Linux. The only debate is
whether to enforce FreeBSD securelevel for ext2 which I would be
inclined to do.

	Kirk McKusick



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