[Cluster-devel] [PATCH 02/18] fs: add get_acl helper

[Andreas Gruenbacher <andreas.gruenbacher@linbit.com>]

Christoph,

> +struct posix_acl *get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type)
> +{
> +	struct posix_acl *acl;
> +
> +	acl = get_cached_acl(inode, type);
> +	if (acl != ACL_NOT_CACHED)
> +		return acl;
> +
> +	if (!IS_POSIXACL(inode))
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * A filesystem can force a ACL callback by just never filling the
> +	 * ACL cache. But normally you'd fill the cache either at inode
> +	 * instantiation time, or on the first ->get_acl call.
> +	 *
> +	 * If the filesystem doesn't have a get_acl() function at all, we'll
> +	 * just create the negative cache entry.
> +	 */
> +	if (!inode->i_op->get_acl) {
> +		set_cached_acl(inode, type, NULL);
> +		return ERR_PTR(-EAGAIN);

The function should return NULL here.

Andreas