Always set up a negative ACL cache entry if the inode can't have ACLs. That behaves much better than doing this check inside ->check_acl. Also remove the left over MAY_NOT_BLOCK check. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/reiserfs/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/reiserfs/inode.c 2011-07-23 16:39:07.214083201 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/reiserfs/inode.c 2011-07-23 16:39:41.154082998 +0200 @@ -1475,6 +1475,11 @@ void reiserfs_read_locked_inode(struct i reiserfs_check_path(&path_to_sd); /* init inode should be relsing */ + /* + * Stat data v1 doesn't support ACLs. + */ + if (get_inode_sd_version(inode) == STAT_DATA_V1) + cache_no_acl(inode); } /** Index: linux-2.6/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c 2011-07-23 16:39:07.230749867 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c 2011-07-23 16:39:41.157416331 +0200 @@ -872,15 +872,6 @@ int reiserfs_check_acl(struct inode *ino struct posix_acl *acl; int error = -EAGAIN; /* do regular unix permission checks by default */ - /* - * Stat data v1 doesn't support ACLs. - */ - if (get_inode_sd_version(inode) == STAT_DATA_V1) - return -EAGAIN; - - if (mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK) - return -ECHILD; - acl = reiserfs_get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS); if (acl) { -- 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