This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ovl: fix get_acl() on tmpfs
to the 4.8-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-fix-get_acl-on-tmpfs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b93d4a0eb308d4400b84c8b24c1b80e09a9497d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2016 14:42:14 +0100
Subject: ovl: fix get_acl() on tmpfs
From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit b93d4a0eb308d4400b84c8b24c1b80e09a9497d0 upstream.
tmpfs doesn't have ->get_acl() because it only uses cached acls.
This fixes the acl tests in pjdfstest when tmpfs is used as the upper layer
of the overlay.
Reported-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 39a25b2b3762 ("ovl: define ->get_acl() for overlay inodes")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -294,9 +294,6 @@ struct posix_acl *ovl_get_acl(struct ino
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL) || !IS_POSIXACL(realinode))
return NULL;
- if (!realinode->i_op->get_acl)
- return NULL;
-
old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
acl = get_acl(realinode, type);
revert_creds(old_cred);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.8/ovl-update-s_isgid-when-setting-posix-acls.patch
queue-4.8/ovl-fix-get_acl-on-tmpfs.patch
queue-4.8/ovl-fsync-after-copy-up.patch
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