[Virtio-fs] [PATCH v2 0/3] virtiofsd: Add options to enable/disable posix acl

[Luis Henriques]

Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> This is V2 of the patches. Changes since v1 are.
>
> - Rebased on top of latest master.
> - Took care of Miklos's comments to block acl xattrs if user
>   explicitly disabled posix acl.
>
> Luis Henriques reported that fstest generic/099 fails with virtiofs.
> Little debugging showed that we don't enable acl support. So this
> patch series provides option to enable/disable posix acl support. By
> default it is disabled.
>
> I have run blogbench and pjdfstests with posix acl enabled and
> things work fine.
>
> Luis, can you please apply these patches, and run virtiofsd with
> "-o posix_acl" and see if it fixes the failure you are seeing. I
> ran the steps you provided manually and it fixes the issue for
> me.

Sorry for the delay.  I've finally tested these patches and they indeed
fix the problem I reported.  My only question about this fix is why is
this option not enabled by default, since this is the documented behavior
in acl(5) and umask(2)?  In fact, why is this an option at all? 

Cheers,
-- 
Luis