Merge commit '9f12600fe425bc28f0ccba034a77783c09c15af4' into for-linus

Backmerge of dcache.c changes from mainline.  It's that, or complete
rebase...

Conflicts:
	fs/splice.c

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
index 6f3f392d48af..f66c66b9f182 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4acl.c
@@ -402,8 +402,10 @@ sort_pacl(struct posix_acl *pacl)
 	 * by uid/gid. */
 	int i, j;
 
-	if (pacl->a_count <= 4)
-		return; /* no users or groups */
+	/* no users or groups */
+	if (!pacl || pacl->a_count <= 4)
+		return;
+
 	i = 1;
 	while (pacl->a_entries[i].e_tag == ACL_USER)
 		i++;
@@ -530,13 +532,12 @@ posix_state_to_acl(struct posix_acl_state *state, unsigned int flags)
 
 	/*
 	 * ACLs with no ACEs are treated differently in the inheritable
-	 * and effective cases: when there are no inheritable ACEs, we
-	 * set a zero-length default posix acl:
+	 * and effective cases: when there are no inheritable ACEs,
+	 * calls ->set_acl with a NULL ACL structure.
 	 */
-	if (state->empty && (flags & NFS4_ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT)) {
-		pacl = posix_acl_alloc(0, GFP_KERNEL);
-		return pacl ? pacl : ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-	}
+	if (state->empty && (flags & NFS4_ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT))
+		return NULL;
+
 	/*
 	 * When there are no effective ACEs, the following will end
 	 * up setting a 3-element effective posix ACL with all
@@ -589,7 +590,7 @@ posix_state_to_acl(struct posix_acl_state *state, unsigned int flags)
 		add_to_mask(state, &state->groups->aces[i].perms);
 	}
 
-	if (!state->users->n && !state->groups->n) {
+	if (state->users->n || state->groups->n) {
 		pace++;
 		pace->e_tag = ACL_MASK;
 		low_mode_from_nfs4(state->mask.allow, &pace->e_perm, flags);