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

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Thu, 9 May 2024 at 16:08, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > I think this should just be removed unconditionally, since the VFS now
> > takes care of mode masking in vfs_prepare_mode().
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> That works for symlinks because the symlink path doesn't call it?

Yep.

Thanks,
Miklos