This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: remove upper umask handling from ovl_create_upper() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-remove-upper-umask-handling-from-ovl_create_uppe.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 61427aca202280501145d2a2d619c6b8ae379284 Author: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 2 20:35:57 2024 +0200 ovl: remove upper umask handling from ovl_create_upper() [ Upstream commit 096802748ea1dea8b476938e0a8dc16f4bd2f1ad ] This is already done by vfs_prepare_mode() when creating the upper object by vfs_create(), vfs_mkdir() and vfs_mknod(). No regressions have been observed in xfstests run with posix acls turned off for the upper filesystem. Fixes: 1639a49ccdce ("fs: move S_ISGID stripping into the vfs_*() helpers") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index 519193ce7d575..89fc23803dafc 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -325,9 +325,6 @@ static int ovl_create_upper(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, struct dentry *newdentry; int err; - if (!attr->hardlink && !IS_POSIXACL(udir)) - attr->mode &= ~current_umask(); - inode_lock_nested(udir, I_MUTEX_PARENT); newdentry = ovl_create_real(udir, lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name,