NFS client broken in Linus' tip

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Mon Feb 3 03:03:25 EST 2014


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?



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