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Bug 30859 - Grub fails to read ext2/3 symlinks with extended attributes
Summary: Grub fails to read ext2/3 symlinks with extended attributes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2003-10-10 13:56 UTC by Chris PeBenito (RETIRED)
Modified: 2004-01-25 10:14 UTC (History)
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Description Chris PeBenito (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-10 13:56:31 UTC 
Grub fails to read symlinks that have extended attributes, on a ext2/3 fs.  This especially breaks systems that rely on the boot->. symlink (i.e. separate /boot partition).

I encountered this on my SELinux systems, as the new SELinux API uses extended attributes to store the file's security label.

This really is critical severity, but I set it on major, since the number of SELinux or acl extended attribute users is small.
Comment 1 Joshua Brindle (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-12 15:34:26 UTC 
This is a bug in Grub and the hardened team can't do anything about it, please
assign to someone responsible for grub, Thanks and sorry .
Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-18 02:44:15 UTC 
I've searched high and low and I can not find a fix for this :/

I searched through grub archives, suse patchsets, adamantix patchsets, selinux mailing list archives, google, and

I can not find a thing about it.  Thing is, this happens with grub-0.93 and grub-0.92 as well.  I'm sorry, but I have no idea what to do with this bug.  And, since *.gnu.org is down, I don't even know what the latest cvs developments are in grub.
Comment 3 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-01-25 10:14:23 UTC 
new grub snapshots 20031220 and 20040125 have this issue fixed