Re: [PATCH 5.4 110/202] ovl: remove upper umask handling from ovl_create_upper()

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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 2:00 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 5.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ 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")

Hi Greg,

This patch is in fact a cleanup, not a fix (maybe I shouldn't have
used the Fixes: tag).

Considering that the "fixed" commit is from v6.0, I think backporting
to anything earlier than v6.0 is not a good idea.

Thanks,
Miklos






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