linux-kernel - Re: NFS client broken in Linus' tip

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Date:	Mon, 3 Feb 2014 09:17:30 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	linuxnfs <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Viro Alexander <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: NFS client broken in Linus' tip


On Feb 3, 2014, at 3:03, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 03:59:30PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>> posix_acl_xattr_get requires get_acl() to return EOPNOTSUPP if the
>> filesystem cannot support acls. This is needed for NFS, which can't
>> know whether or not the server supports acls until it tries to get/set
>> one.
>> This patch converts posix_acl_chmod and posix_acl_create to deal with
>> EOPNOTSUPP return values from get_acl().
> 
> Shouldn't NFS just return a NULL ACL here?

As I said above, that causes posix_acl_xattr_get() to return the wrong answer (ENODATA instead of EOPNOTSUPP).

--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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