From: John Muir I found problems accessing (executing) previously existing files, until I did chmod on them (or setattr). If the fi->attr_version is not initialized, then it could be larger than fc->attr_version until a setattr is executed, and as a result the inode attributes would never be set. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/fuse/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/fuse/inode.c~fuse-fix-uninitialized-field-in-fuse_inode fs/fuse/inode.c --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c~fuse-fix-uninitialized-field-in-fuse_inode +++ a/fs/fuse/inode.c @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ static struct inode *fuse_alloc_inode(st fi->i_time = 0; fi->nodeid = 0; fi->nlookup = 0; + fi->attr_version = 0; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&fi->write_files); fi->forget_req = fuse_request_alloc(); if (!fi->forget_req) { _