Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: ignore empty NFSv4 ACLs in ext4 upperdir

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Andreas GrÃnbacher
<andreas.gruenbacher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2016-12-06 0:19 GMT+01:00 Andreas GrÃnbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@xxxxxxxxx>:

>> It's not hard to come up with a heuristic that determines if a
>> system.nfs4_acl value is equivalent to a file mode, and to ignore the
>> attribute in that case. (The file mode is transmitted in its own
>> attribute already, so actually converting .) That way, overlayfs could
>> still fail copying up files that have an actual ACL. It's still an
>> ugly hack ...
>
> Actually, that kind of heuristic would make sense in the NFS client
> which could then hide the "system.nfs4_acl" attribute.

Even simpler would be if knfsd didn't send the attribute if not
necessary.  Looks like there's code actively creating the nfs4_acl on
the wire even if the filesystem had none:

    pacl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
    if (!pacl)
        pacl = posix_acl_from_mode(inode->i_mode, GFP_KERNEL);

What's the point?

Thanks,
Miklos