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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to e2fsprogs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1807288 Title: mkfs.ext4 -d $directory_with_acls leads to EINVAL Status in e2fsprogs package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in e2fsprogs source package in Bionic: Fix Committed Status in e2fsprogs source package in Cosmic: Fix Released Status in e2fsprogs source package in Disco: Fix Released Bug description: [Justification] `mkfs.ext4 -d` can produce broken filesystems when there are acls in the tree used as input. [Test case] 1. dd if=/dev/zero count=0 bs=1M seek=100 of=./fake.img 2. mkdir -p stuff/journal 3. sudo apt install acl 4. setfacl -m g:adm:rwx stuff/journal 5. mkfs.ext4 -L lala -O -metadata_csum -T default -O uninit_bg fake.img -d ./stuff/ 6. sudo mount ./fake.img /mnt 7. Verify that `getfacl /mnt/journal/` returns an error. 8. sudo umount /mnt 9. install libext2fs2 from -proposed. 10. mkfs.ext4 -L lala -O -metadata_csum -T default -O uninit_bg fake.img -d ./stuff/ 11. sudo mount ./fake.img /mnt 12. Verify that `getfacl /mnt/journal/` returns acl information, not an error. 13. sudo umount /mnt [Original description] This looks an awful lot like bug 1645232 but that is claimed to be fixed: mwhudson@ringil:~/tmp$ mkfs.ext4 -V mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.44.1 mwhudson@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@ringil:~/tmp$ mkdir -p stuff/journal mwhudson@ringil:~/tmp$ setfacl -m g:adm:rwx stuff/journal mwhudson@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@ringil:~/tmp$ sudo mount ./fake.img /mnt mwhudson@ringil:~/tmp$ getfacl /mnt/journal/ getfacl: /mnt/journal/: Invalid argument To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1807288/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp