Aurélien Francillon found a bug in this patch. The delta is: Index: linux-2.6.11/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.11.orig/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c +++ linux-2.6.11/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c @@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ exit: if (!inode) goto out; status = nfs3_set_default_acl(dir, inode, mode); + if (status) + goto out; + return inode; } out: return ERR_PTR(status); Please find the fixed patch attached. Regards, -- Andreas Gruenbacher SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH