linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] VFS stuff, part 1

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:00:32 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] VFS stuff, part 1

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:40:03AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:02:11AM +0000, Tony Vroon wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 23:27 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > > Do you want me to revert 1c7c474c31aea6d5cb2fb35f31d9e9e91ae466b1
> > > > locally or try linux-2.6 old enough not to have this?
> > > The former.
> > 
> > That resolves the issue completely. I am now able to boot.
> 
> Oh, fsck...  I see.  Linus, the fix is added to the same branch (and
> I'll throw the fix for removed alloc_file export there in a few minutes).

Nevermind, alloc_file export had been restored in mainline already.
So just pull from the same place, same branch (
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6.git/ master
), there's just that one commit on top of mainline.

What happened: in absence of CONFIG_TPMFS_POSIX_ACL, shmem_mknod() had
code that boiled down to
	error = 0; /* shmem_acl_init(...), actually */
	if (error)
		cleanup
and Christoph's patch had put all that chunk under ifdef.  Which was not
an equivalent transformation, since we could arrive there with non-zero
error.  Old code used to set it to 0, new one left as-is.
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