From: Anthony G. Basile <blueness@gentoo.org>

This patch adds support for a restricted user-controlled namespace on
tmpfs filesystem used to house PaX flags.  The namespace must be of the
form user.pax.* and its value cannot exceed a size of 8 bytes.

This is needed even on all Gentoo systems so that XATTR_PAX flags
are preserved for users who might build packages using portage on
a tmpfs system with a non-hardened kernel and then switch to a
hardened kernel with XATTR_PAX enabled.

The namespace is added to any user with Extended Attribute support
enabled for tmpfs.  Users who do not enable xattrs will not have
the XATTR_PAX flags preserved.

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/xattr.h b/include/uapi/linux/xattr.h
index e4629b9..6958086 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -63,3 +63,8 @@
 #endif  /*  __KERNEL__  */
+
+/* User namespace */
+#define XATTR_PAX_PREFIX XATTR_USER_PREFIX "pax."
+#define XATTR_PAX_FLAGS_SUFFIX "flags"
+#define XATTR_NAME_PAX_FLAGS XATTR_PAX_PREFIX XATTR_PAX_FLAGS_SUFFIX
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_XATTR_H */
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 1c44af7..f23bb1b 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2201,6 +2201,7 @@ static const struct xattr_handler *shmem_xattr_handlers[] = {
 static int shmem_xattr_validate(const char *name)
 {
 	struct { const char *prefix; size_t len; } arr[] = {
+		{ XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN},
 		{ XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN },
 		{ XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX, XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX_LEN }
 	};
@@ -2256,7 +2257,14 @@ static int shmem_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
 	if (err)
 		return err;
+
+	if (!strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN)) {
+		if (strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_PAX_FLAGS))
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		if (size > 8)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}

 	if (size == 0)
 		value = "";  /* empty EA, do not remove */
 
 	return shmem_xattr_set(dentry, name, value, size, flags);