From: Miklos Szeredi I added a nasty local variable shadowing bug to fuse in 2.6.24, with the result, that the 'default_permissions' mount option is basically ignored. How did this happen? - old err declaration in inner scope - new err getting declared in outer scope - 'return err' from inner scope getting removed - old declaration not being noticed -Wshadow would have saved us, but it doesn't seem practical for the kernel :( More testing would have also saved us :(( Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Index: linux/fs/fuse/dir.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/fuse/dir.c 2008-02-15 10:46:06.000000000 +0100 +++ linux/fs/fuse/dir.c 2008-02-15 11:05:46.000000000 +0100 @@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static int fuse_permission(struct inode } if (fc->flags & FUSE_DEFAULT_PERMISSIONS) { - int err = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL); + err = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL); /* If permission is denied, try to refresh file attributes. This is also needed, because the root