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Shrawan Kumar (shkumar31) wrote : Re: [Bug 1645232] Re: e2fsprogs - could not preserve ACL permissions : The getxattr() returns with (EINVAL)

Thanks a lot !!

Regards
Shrawan

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Sojan James <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you Theodore.
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> Title:
> e2fsprogs - could not preserve ACL permissions : The getxattr()
> returns with (EINVAL)
>
> Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> The original installed e2fsprogs did not support mke2fs -d /directory
> " option . So , git cloned from e2fsprogs packages from repository
> and installed it and followed below steps to reproduce this :
>
> 1. set the ACL rules as below to one of the binary :
>
> $ setfacl -m u:vipatil:r-- rootfs/usr/bin/helloworld
> $ getfacl rootfs/usr/bin/helloworld
> # file: rootfs/usr/bin/helloworld
> # owner: shkumar
> # group: hardev
> user::rwx
> user:vipatil:r--
> group::---
> mask::r--
> other::---
>
> 2. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=test.ext4 bs=1M count=60
>
> 3. $ mke2fs -t ext4 test.ext4 -d rootfs/
> mke2fs 1.43.3 (04-Sep-2016)
> Discarding device blocks: done
> Creating filesystem with 61440 1k blocks and 15360 inodes
> Filesystem UUID: 495713b3-5f1f-427a-8359-a736dfb2ece9
> Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> 8193, 24577, 40961, 57345
>
> Allocating group tables: done
> Writing inode tables: done
> Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
> Copying files into the device: done
> Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
>
> 4. sudo mount -o loop,acl,user_xattr,rw,sync test.ext4 mountpoint
>
> 5.@/mountpoint$ getfacl usr/bin/helloworld
> getfacl: usr/bin/helloworld: Invalid argument
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