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Date:   Mon, 3 Sep 2018 11:03:32 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@....com>
Cc:     jack@...e.com, tytso@....edu, adilger.kernel@...ger.ca,
        jaegeuk@...nel.org, yuchao0@...wei.com, shaggy@...nel.org,
        hubcap@...ibond.com, martin@...ibond.com, devel@...ts.orangefs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        jfs-discussion@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] ext2: cache NULL when both default_acl and acl
 are NULL

On Fri 31-08-18 22:33:48, Chengguang Xu wrote:
> default_acl and acl of newly created inode will be initiated
> as ACL_NOT_CACHED in vfs function inode_init_always() and later
> will be updated by calling xxx_init_acl() in specific filesystems.
> Howerver, when default_acl and acl are NULL then they keep the value
> of ACL_NOT_CACHED, this patch tries to cache NULL for acl/default_acl
> in this case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@....com>

Thanks! I'll take this patch (with slight changelog update) to my tree.

								Honza

> ---
> v1->v2:
> - Coding style change.
> 
>  fs/ext2/acl.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext2/acl.c b/fs/ext2/acl.c
> index 224c04abb2e5..cf4c77f8dd08 100644
> --- a/fs/ext2/acl.c
> +++ b/fs/ext2/acl.c
> @@ -256,11 +256,15 @@ ext2_init_acl(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir)
>  	if (default_acl) {
>  		error = __ext2_set_acl(inode, default_acl, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
>  		posix_acl_release(default_acl);
> +	} else {
> +		inode->i_default_acl = NULL;
>  	}
>  	if (acl) {
>  		if (!error)
>  			error = __ext2_set_acl(inode, acl, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
>  		posix_acl_release(acl);
> +	} else {
> +		inode->i_acl = NULL;
>  	}
>  	return error;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR