While trying to track down some NFS problems with BTRFS, I kept noticing I was getting -EACCESS for no apparent reason. Eric Paris and printk() helped me figure out that it was SELinux that was giving me grief, with the following denial type=AVC msg=audit(1290013638.413:95): avc: denied { 0x800000 } for pid=1772 comm="nfsd" name="" dev=sda1 ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=file Turns out this is because in d_obtain_alias if we can't find an alias we create one and do all the normal instantiation stuff, but we don't do the security_d_instantiate. With this patch I'm no longer seeing these errant -EACCESS return values. Thanks, Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 23702a9..890a59e 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1201,6 +1201,7 @@ struct dentry *d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode) spin_unlock(&tmp->d_lock); spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); + security_d_instantiate(tmp, inode); return tmp; out_iput: -- 1.6.6.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html