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

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On 05/21/2015 07:03 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> 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(-)
> 

Ignore this, accidentally resent these patches

- Cole

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