Merge tag 'sound-3.16-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai...

[karo-tx-linux.git] / fs / posix_acl.c

diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 9e363e41dacc8c2ebc007661a598c01e84da45c9..0855f772cd41599d6c1d1091e7da616d32cccf53 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -246,6 +246,12 @@ posix_acl_equiv_mode(const struct posix_acl *acl, umode_t *mode_p)
        umode_t mode = 0;
        int not_equiv = 0;
 
+       /*
+        * A null ACL can always be presented as mode bits.
+        */
+       if (!acl)
+               return 0;
+
        FOREACH_ACL_ENTRY(pa, acl, pe) {
                switch (pa->e_tag) {
                        case ACL_USER_OBJ: