René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > ... It's basically harmless. Perhaps > we just need a comment stating that, to contain the urge to "fix" this. Yeah, especially since fsck finds and warns about bad mode with FSCK_MSG_BAD_FILEMODE and also FSCK_MSG_ZERO_PADDED_FILEMODE in a separate codepath, adding another piece of code that checks a slightly different condition does not sound like a good idea. Thanks.