Re: [PATCH v7 5/7] fuse: Simplfiy the posix acl handling logic.

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:53 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Rename the fuse connection flag posix_acl to cached_posix_acl as that
> is what it actually means.  That fuse will cache and operate on the
> cached value of the posix acl.
>
> When fc->cached_posix_acl is not set, set ACL_DONT_CACHE on the inode
> so that get_acl and friends won't cache the acl values even if they
> are called.
>
> Replace forget_all_cached_acls with fuse_forget_cached_acls.  This
> wrapper only takes effect when cached_posix_acl is true to prevent
> losing the nocache or noxattr status in when posix acls are not
> cached.

Shouldn't forget_cached_acl() be taught about ACL_DONT_CACHE?  I think
it makes sense to generally not clear ACL_DONT_CACHE, since it's not
an actual acl value that needs forgetting.

Thanks,
Miklos