[PATCH v3 0/4] storage: fs: tweak dir perms handling on build

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Consider the following issue

- Using virt-manager with qemu:///session
- User adds a storage pool pointing at /tmp. No explicit permissions are
  requested in the XML
- virt-manager calls PoolDefine, then PoolBuild
- libvirt tries to unconditionally chmod 755 /tmp. This fails because my
  user doesn't own root. Pool build fails, virt-manager reports failure

Yes there's a couple ways we could avoid this specific case in
virt-manager, but I think it makes more sense to have pool.build on
a directory be a no-op in this case. The following patches address this.

I already pushed some bits of v2 of the series. Now the patches are:

- Patch 1 (new) update existing docs about storage <permissions>
- Patch 2 changes storage XML to not hardcode a <mode> value if the user
  didn't specify one in.
- Patch 3 (new) don't output empty <permissions> block
- Patch 4 makes pool.build skip dir chmod unless the user explicitly
  requested <mode> via the XML. However if a mode is required for mkdir,
  continue to use the previous default.

Cole Robinson (4):
  docs: formatstorage: Update <permissions> docs
  storage: conf: Don't set any default <mode> in the XML
  conf: storage: Don't emit empty <permissions> block
  storage: fs: Only force directory permissions if required

 docs/formatstorage.html.in                         | 40 ++++++++-----
 docs/schemas/storagecommon.rng                     |  8 ++-
 src/conf/storage_conf.c                            | 70 ++++++++++++----------
 src/storage/storage_backend.c                      | 20 +++++--
 src/storage/storage_backend.h                      |  3 +
 src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c                   | 32 ++++++----
 src/storage/storage_backend_logical.c              |  4 +-
 src/util/virfile.c                                 |  4 +-
 tests/storagepoolxml2xmlout/pool-netfs-gluster.xml |  3 -
 tests/storagevolxml2xmlout/vol-gluster-dir.xml     |  3 -
 tests/storagevolxml2xmlout/vol-sheepdog.xml        |  3 -
 11 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)

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2.4.1

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