Re: [git pull] vfs pile 1

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series.
> Plus assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place...  There will be
> another pile later this week.

The posix_acl_chmod() code looks wrong.

Not that it looked right before either, but whatever. The code
basically looks like some variation of this in most setattr()
implementations:

        if (ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)
                rc = posix_acl_chmod(inode, inode->i_mode);

but the mode we're changing to (and what ATTR_MODE guards) is actually
attr->ia_mode, not inode->i_mode. And quite frankly, passing in
inode->i_mode looks stupid, since we're already passing in the inode
pointer, so that's just redundant and pointless information.

Anyway, I noticed this after doing the (untested, and still un-acked -
hint, hint) ceph conversion. In that, I made ceph use attr->ia_mode.
Maybe that was wrong, but at least it's not insane and stupid like the
other filesystem implementations are.

Comments?

              Linus
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