When looking up an inode on the lower layer for which the mounter lacks
read permisison the metacopy check will fail. This causes the lookup to
fail as well, even though the directory is readable.
So ignore EACCES for the "userxattr" case and assume no metacopy for the
unreadable file.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
if (res < 0) {
if (res == -ENODATA || res == -EOPNOTSUPP)
return 0;
+ /*
+ * getxattr on user.* may fail with EACCES in case there's no
+ * read permission on the inode. Not much we can do, other than
+ * tell the caller that this is not a metacopy inode.
+ */
+ if (ofs->config.userxattr && res == -EACCES)
+ return 0;
goto out;
}