Re: [PATCH] ext4: Don't reduce symlink i_mode by umask if no ACL support

[David Howells]

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think this should just be removed unconditionally, since the VFS now
> takes care of mode masking in vfs_prepare_mode().

That works for symlinks because the symlink path doesn't call it?

David