[Bug 1807288] Re: mkfs.ext4 -d $directory_with_acls leads to EINVAL

[Theodore Ts'o]

Yep, it looks like it was a regression that was introduced by commit
50d0998cfee ("libext2fs: add ea_inode support to set xattr").   The
following patch should fix things.


** Patch added: "0001-libext2fs-fix-regression-so-we-are-correctly-transla.patch"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1807288/+attachment/5219885/+files/0001-libext2fs-fix-regression-so-we-are-correctly-transla.patch

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Title:
  mkfs.ext4 -d $directory_with_acls leads to EINVAL

Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This looks an awful lot like bug 1645232 but that is claimed to be
  fixed:

  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ mkfs.ext4 -V
  mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
  	Using EXT2FS Library version 1.44.1
  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ dd if=/dev/zero count=0 bs=1M seek=100 of=./fake.img
  0+0 records in
  0+0 records out
  0 bytes copied, 0.0015871 s, 0.0 kB/s
  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ mkdir -p stuff/journal
  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ setfacl -m g:adm:rwx stuff/journal
  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ mkfs.ext4 -L lala -O -metadata_csum -T default -O uninit_bg fake.img -d ./stuff/
  mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
  Discarding device blocks: done                            
  Creating filesystem with 25600 4k blocks and 6400 inodes

  Allocating group tables: done                            
  Writing inode tables: done                            
  Creating journal (1024 blocks): done
  Copying files into the device: done
  Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ sudo mount ./fake.img /mnt
  mwhudson at ringil:~/tmp$ getfacl /mnt/journal/
  getfacl: /mnt/journal/: Invalid argument

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