Re: [GIT PULL] overlayfs fix for 4.8-rc5

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On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This fixes a regression caused by the last pull request.
>
> So why are you checking error numbers one by one?
>
> Why is an error not just always an error?

The issue is that not all errors should result in failure.

That code tries to remove ACL from a directory, and there are several cases:

1) success: that's good obviously
2) error: no ACL was found: that's also good
3) error: ACL's are not supported by the filesystem: this is also good
4) error: ACL was there but we failed to remove it for some other
reason: this is not good

The patch adds handling of case 3.

Thanks,
Miklos
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