Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: Don't reduce symlink i_mode by umask if no ACL support

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Fri, May 10, 2024 at 12:47:21PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>     
> If CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=n then the fallback version of ext4_init_acl()
> will mask off the umask bits from the new inode's i_mode.  This should not
> be done if the inode is a symlink.  If CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y, then we
> go through posix_acl_create() instead which does the right thing with
> symlinks.
> 
> However, this is actually unnecessary now as vfs_prepare_mode() has already
> done this where appropriate, so fix this by making the fallback version of
> ext4_init_acl() do nothing.

Thanks for this patch; however, as I had mentioned in the discussion
of the v1 version the patch, this change is already in the ext4 tree
and linux-next in commit c77194965dd0 ('Revert "ext4: apply umask if
ACL support is disabled"').

						- Ted