ovl: explain error values when removing acl from workdir
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 8ccebaf..eff0f90 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -832,6 +832,19 @@
if (err)
goto out_dput;
+ /*
+ * Try to remove POSIX ACL xattrs from workdir. We are good if:
+ *
+ * a) success (there was a POSIX ACL xattr and was removed)
+ * b) -ENODATA (there was no POSIX ACL xattr)
+ * c) -EOPNOTSUPP (POSIX ACL xattrs are not supported)
+ *
+ * There are various other error values that could effectively
+ * mean that the xattr doesn't exist (e.g. -ERANGE is returned
+ * if the xattr name is too long), but the set of filesystems
+ * allowed as upper are limited to "normal" ones, where checking
+ * for the above two errors is sufficient.
+ */
err = vfs_removexattr(work, XATTR_NAME_POSIX_ACL_DEFAULT);
if (err && err != -ENODATA && err != -EOPNOTSUPP)
goto out_dput;