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. Fixes: 484fd6c1de13 ("ext4: apply umask if ACL support is disabled") Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@xxxxxxxxx> cc: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> cc: linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- fs/ext4/acl.h | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.h b/fs/ext4/acl.h index ef4c19e5f570..0c5a79c3b5d4 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/acl.h +++ b/fs/ext4/acl.h @@ -68,11 +68,6 @@ extern int ext4_init_acl(handle_t *, struct inode *, struct inode *); static inline int ext4_init_acl(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir) { - /* usually, the umask is applied by posix_acl_create(), but if - ext4 ACL support is disabled at compile time, we need to do - it here, because posix_acl_create() will never be called */ - inode->i_mode &= ~current_umask(); - return 0; } #endif /* CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL */