bug#40509: Use of fsetxattr() in cp tickles an EXT leak (possibly unnecessarily so)

[Gregg Leventhal]

Sure that’s fine (regarding copyright), just let me know what to fill out
please.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 6:55 PM Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 4/15/20 7:11 AM, Gregg Leventhal wrote:
>
> > +    xattr_size = flistxattr(src_fd, list, size);
> > +    if ( xattr_size || errno == ERANGE )
>
> Surely this should be 'if (flistxattr (src_fd, NULL, 0) < 0 && errno ==
> ERANGE)'.
>
> > If you agree with this direction, I can continue, addressing other
> affected
> > code paths (i.e --preserve=mode).
>
> This sounds like a good thing to do. Before you spend a lot of time on it,
> though, would you be willing to assign copyright to your work product to
> the FSF
> so that we could install the patch? If so, I can send you email on how to
> fill
> out the paperwork; if not, we'd better arrange for someone else to write
> the fix.
>