Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] vfs: block chmod of symlinks

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 05:15:03AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Arrgh...  That'd break shmem and similar filesystems...  Still, it
> feels like we should _not_ bother in cases when there's no ACL
> for that sucker; after all, if get_acl() returns NULL, we quietly
> return 0 and that's it.
> 
> How about something like this instead?

Do you plan to turn this into a submission?

Rich, can you share your original reproducer?  I would be really
helpful to have it wired up in xfstests as a regression tests.