Re: [PATCH 11/12] vfs: don't parse "posixacl" option

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 4:42 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 04:59:39PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Unlike the others, this is _not_ a standard option accepted by mount(8).
> >
> > In fact SB_POSIXACL is an internal flag, and accepting MS_POSIXACL on the
> > mount(2) interface is possibly a bug.
> >
> > The only filesystem that apparently wants to handle the "posixacl" option
> > is 9p, but it has special handling of that option besides setting
> > SB_POSIXACL.
>
> Huh?  For e.g. ceph having -o posixacl and -o acl are currently equivalent;
> your patch would seem to break that, wouldn't it?

Yet again, this has nothing to do with mount(2) behavior.  Also note
that mount(8) does *not* handle "posixacl" and does *not* ever set
MS_POSIXACL.

So this has exactly zero chance of breaking anything.

Thanks,
Miklos



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