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    [CIFS] CIFS currently allows for permissions to be changed on files, even · d0a9c078
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    when unix extensions and cifsacl support are disabled. These
    permissions changes are "ephemeral" however. They are lost whenever
    a share is mounted and unmounted, or when memory pressure forces
    the inode out of the cache.
    
    Because of this, we'd like to introduce a behavior change to make
    CIFS behave more like local DOS/Windows filesystems. When unix
    extensions and cifsacl support aren't enabled, then don't silently
    ignore changes to permission bits that can't be reflected on the
    server.
    
    Still, there may be people relying on the current behavior for
    certain applications. This patch adds a new "dynperm" (and a
    corresponding "nodynperm") mount option that will be intended
    to make the client fall back to legacy behavior when setting
    these modes.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
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