Comment 17 for bug 634554

Thanks. I look forward to testing the update.

Cheers,
peter

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Colin Watson <email address hidden> wrote:

> I appear to have screwed up. The patch isn't even applied, and when I
> try to apply it it fails hideously due to a conflict with a security
> patch. I'm not quite sure what I was thinking here.
>
> I'll beat it into a sensible state and try again ...
>
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> Title:
> fuse mounts hang on xattr retrieval with auditd
>
> Status in “fuse” package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in “fuse” source package in Lucid:
> Fix Committed
> Status in “fuse” source package in Maverick:
> Fix Released
> Status in “fuse” package in Debian:
> Fix Released
> Status in “fuse” package in Fedora:
> Unknown
>
> Bug description:
> Impact: If audit is enabled in the kernel, mounting fuse filesystems
> hangs.
> Development branch (and maverick): Addressed by upgrade to upstream fuse >=
> 2.8.3.
> Patch: https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/ubuntu/lucid/fuse/audit-hang(backported from upstream - it's not particularly short, but there were
> three intertwined fixes and this was the best I could do)
> TEST CASE: Install auditd and configure a rule, then try to mount a fuse
> filesystem.
> Regression potential: I'd recommend generally playing around with fuse and
> making sure it still works. Running the udisks test suite might be a good
> idea.
>
> Original report follows:
>
> Binary package hint: libfuse2
>
> I'm being struck by the symptoms reported in this bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=493565
>
> Namely, when auditd has any rules configured, I can't mount any fuse
> file-systems. Comment 61 seems to have a pretty solid description of what's
> happening underneath and the solution appears to be upgrading to a libfuse >
> 2.8.3. Only 2.8.1 (http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libfuse2) appears to
> be available currently for lucid.
>
> Cheers,
> peter
>
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