From: Stephen Smalley This patch corrects a typo in an ifdef that enables xattr operations for special files in the ext2 code; otherwise, extended attributes cannot be obtained or set on such inodes. 25-akpm/fs/ext2/namei.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/ext2/namei.c~ext2-xattr-typo-fix fs/ext2/namei.c --- 25/fs/ext2/namei.c~ext2-xattr-typo-fix Tue Aug 26 12:28:47 2003 +++ 25-akpm/fs/ext2/namei.c Tue Aug 26 12:28:47 2003 @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ static int ext2_mknod (struct inode * di int err = PTR_ERR(inode); if (!IS_ERR(inode)) { init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, rdev); -#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_EXT_ATTR +#ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR inode->i_op = &ext2_special_inode_operations; #endif mark_inode_dirty(inode); _