Comment 3 for bug 227808

Unfortunately the upstream kernel patch did not resolve this bug. I'll inline the patch I tested below just for reference. Thanks.

commit 1a823ac9ff09cbdf39201df37b7ede1f9395de83
Author: Miklos Szeredi <email address hidden>
Date: Sat Feb 23 15:23:27 2008 -0800

    fuse: fix permission checking

diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 7fb514b..c4807b3 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ static int fuse_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask, st
        }

        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