This patch had a merge conflict in fs_context.h and wouldn't apply
cleanly. Do you have a git branch with this series (or all three
recent patch series) applied on 6.12-rc2?
On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 9:04 AM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If the SMB symlink is stored on NT server in absolute form then it points
> to the NT object hierarchy, which is different from POSIX one and needs
> some conversion / mapping.
>
> To make interoperability with Windows SMB server and WSL subsystem, reuse
> its logic of mapping between NT paths and POSIX paths into Linux SMB
> client.
>
> WSL subsystem on Windows uses for -t drvfs mount option -o symlinkroot=
> which specifies the POSIX path where are expected to be mounted lowercase
> Windows drive letters (without colon).
>
> Do same for Linux SMB client and add a new mount option -o symlinkroot=
> which mimics the drvfs mount option of the same name. It specifies where in
> the Linux VFS hierarchy is the root of the DOS / Windows drive letters, and
> translates between absolute NT-style symlinks and absolute Linux VFS
> symlinks. Default value of symlinkroot is "/mnt", same what is using WSL.
>
> Note that DOS / Windows drive letter symlinks are just subset of all
> possible NT-style symlinks. Drive letters live in NT subtree \??\ and
> important details about NT paths and object hierarchy are in the comments
> in this change.
>
> When symlink target location from non-POSIX SMB server is in absolute form
> (indicated by absence of SYMLINK_FLAG_RELATIVE) then it is converted to
> Linux absolute symlink according to symlinkroot configuration.
>
> And when creating a new symlink on non-POSIX SMB server in absolute form
> then Linux absolute target is converted to NT-style according to
> symlinkroot configuration.
>
> When SMB server is POSIX, then this change does not affect neither reading
> target location of symlink, nor creating a new symlink. It is expected that
> POSIX SMB server works with POSIX paths where the absolute root is /.
>
> This change improves interoperability of absolute SMB symlinks with Windows
> SMB servers.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 22 +++
> fs/smb/client/fs_context.h | 2 +
> fs/smb/client/reparse.c | 267 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 3 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c
> index 2f0c3894b0f7..22b550860cc8 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c
> @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ const struct fs_parameter_spec smb3_fs_parameters[] = {
> fsparam_string("sec", Opt_sec),
> fsparam_string("cache", Opt_cache),
> fsparam_string("reparse", Opt_reparse),
> + fsparam_string("symlinkroot", Opt_symlinkroot),
>
> /* Arguments that should be ignored */
> fsparam_flag("guest", Opt_ignore),
> @@ -355,6 +356,7 @@ smb3_fs_context_dup(struct smb3_fs_context *new_ctx, struct smb3_fs_context *ctx
> new_ctx->source = NULL;
> new_ctx->iocharset = NULL;
> new_ctx->leaf_fullpath = NULL;
> + new_ctx->symlinkroot = NULL;
> /*
> * Make sure to stay in sync with smb3_cleanup_fs_context_contents()
> */
> @@ -369,6 +371,7 @@ smb3_fs_context_dup(struct smb3_fs_context *new_ctx, struct smb3_fs_context *ctx
> DUP_CTX_STR(nodename);
> DUP_CTX_STR(iocharset);
> DUP_CTX_STR(leaf_fullpath);
> + DUP_CTX_STR(symlinkroot);
>
> return 0;
> }
> @@ -1614,9 +1617,26 @@ static int smb3_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc,
> if (parse_reparse_flavor(fc, param->string, ctx))
> goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
> break;
> + case Opt_symlinkroot:
> + if (param->string[0] != '/') {
> + cifs_errorf(fc, "symlinkroot mount options must be absolute path\n");
> + goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
> + }
> + kfree(ctx->symlinkroot);
> + ctx->symlinkroot = kstrdup(param->string, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!ctx->symlinkroot)
> + goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
> + break;
> }
> /* case Opt_ignore: - is ignored as expected ... */
>
> + /*
> + * By default resolve all native absolute symlinks relative to "/mnt/".
> + * Same default has drvfs driver running in WSL for resolving SMB shares.
> + */
> + if (!ctx->symlinkroot)
> + ctx->symlinkroot = kstrdup("/mnt/", GFP_KERNEL);
> +
> return 0;
>
> cifs_parse_mount_err:
> @@ -1747,6 +1767,8 @@ smb3_cleanup_fs_context_contents(struct smb3_fs_context *ctx)
> ctx->prepath = NULL;
> kfree(ctx->leaf_fullpath);
> ctx->leaf_fullpath = NULL;
> + kfree(ctx->symlinkroot);
> + ctx->symlinkroot = NULL;
> }
>
> void
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.h b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.h
> index cf577ec0dd0a..8dd12498ffd8 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.h
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.h
> @@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ enum cifs_param {
> Opt_sec,
> Opt_cache,
> Opt_reparse,
> + Opt_symlinkroot,
>
> /* Mount options to be ignored */
> Opt_ignore,
> @@ -284,6 +285,7 @@ struct smb3_fs_context {
> struct cifs_ses *dfs_root_ses;
> bool dfs_automount:1; /* set for dfs automount only */
> enum cifs_reparse_type reparse_type;
> + char *symlinkroot; /* top level directory for native SMB symlinks in absolute format */
> };
>
> extern const struct fs_parameter_spec smb3_fs_parameters[];
> diff --git a/fs/smb/client/reparse.c b/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
> index fb1d16b17f38..a577b2d2a4fc 100644
> --- a/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
> +++ b/fs/smb/client/reparse.c
> @@ -25,33 +25,128 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
> const char *full_path, const char *symname)
> {
> struct reparse_symlink_data_buffer *buf = NULL;
> - struct cifs_open_info_data data;
> + struct cifs_open_info_data data = {};
> struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb = CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb);
> struct inode *new;
> struct kvec iov;
> - __le16 *path;
> + __le16 *path = NULL;
> bool directory;
> - char *sym, sep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb);
> - u16 len, plen;
> + char *symlink_target = NULL;
> + char *sym = NULL;
> + char sep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb);
> + u16 len, plen, poff, slen;
> int rc = 0;
>
> - sym = kstrdup(symname, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (!sym)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> + symlink_target = kstrdup(symname, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!symlink_target) {
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
>
> data = (struct cifs_open_info_data) {
> .reparse_point = true,
> .reparse = { .tag = IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK, },
> - .symlink_target = sym,
> + .symlink_target = symlink_target,
> };
>
> - convert_delimiter(sym, sep);
> + if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && symname[0] == '/') {
> + /*
> + * This is a request to create an absolute symlink on the server
> + * which does not support POSIX paths, and expects symlink in
> + * NT-style path. So convert absolute Linux symlink target path
> + * to the absolute NT-style path. Root of the NT-style path for
> + * symlinks is specified in "symlinkroot" mount option. This will
> + * ensure compatibility of this symlink stored in absolute form
> + * on the SMB server.
> + */
> + if (!strstarts(symname, cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot)) {
> + /*
> + * If the absolute Linux symlink target path is not
> + * inside "symlinkroot" location then there is no way
> + * to convert such Linux symlink to NT-style path.
> + */
> + cifs_dbg(VFS,
> + "absolute symlink '%s' cannot be converted to NT format "
> + "because it is outside of symlinkroot='%s'\n",
> + symname, cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot);
> + rc = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> + len = strlen(cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot);
> + if (cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot[len-1] != '/')
> + len++;
> + if (symname[len] >= 'a' && symname[len] <= 'z' &&
> + (symname[len+1] == '/' || symname[len+1] == '\0')) {
> + /*
> + * Symlink points to Linux target /symlinkroot/x/path/...
> + * where 'x' is the lowercase local Windows drive.
> + * NT-style path for 'x' has common form \??\X:\path\...
> + * with uppercase local Windows drive.
> + */
> + int common_path_len = strlen(symname+len+1)+1;
> + sym = kzalloc(6+common_path_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!sym) {
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
> + memcpy(sym, "\\??\\", 4);
> + sym[4] = symname[len] - ('a'-'A');
> + sym[5] = ':';
> + memcpy(sym+6, symname+len+1, common_path_len);
> + } else {
> + /* Unhandled absolute symlink. Report an error. */
> + cifs_dbg(
> + VFS,
> + "absolute symlink '%s' cannot be converted to NT format "
> + "because it points to unknown target\n",
> + symname);
> + rc = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> + } else {
> + /*
> + * This is request to either create an absolute symlink on
> + * server which expects POSIX paths or it is an request to
> + * create a relative symlink from the current directory.
> + * These paths have same format as relative SMB symlinks,
> + * so no conversion is needed. So just take symname as-is.
> + */
> + sym = kstrdup(symname, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!sym) {
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
> + }
> +
> + if (sep == '\\')
> + convert_delimiter(sym, sep);
> +
> + /*
> + * For absolute NT symlinks it is required to pass also leading
> + * backslash and to not mangle NT object prefix "\\??\\" and not to
> + * mangle colon in drive letter. But cifs_convert_path_to_utf16()
> + * removes leading backslash and replaces '?' and ':'. So temporary
> + * mask these characters in NT object prefix by '_' and then change
> + * them back.
> + */
> + if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && symname[0] == '/')
> + sym[0] = sym[1] = sym[2] = sym[5] = '_';
> +
> path = cifs_convert_path_to_utf16(sym, cifs_sb);
> if (!path) {
> rc = -ENOMEM;
> goto out;
> }
>
> + if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && symname[0] == '/') {
> + sym[0] = '\\';
> + sym[1] = sym[2] = '?';
> + sym[5] = ':';
> + path[0] = '\\';
> + path[1] = path[2] = '?';
> + path[5] = ':';
> + }
> +
> /*
> * SMB distinguish between symlink to directory and symlink to file.
> * They cannot be exchanged (symlink of file type which points to
> @@ -64,8 +159,18 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
> if (rc < 0)
> goto out;
>
> - plen = 2 * UniStrnlen((wchar_t *)path, PATH_MAX);
> - len = sizeof(*buf) + plen * 2;
> + slen = 2 * UniStrnlen((wchar_t *)path, PATH_MAX);
> + poff = 0;
> + plen = slen;
> + if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && symname[0] == '/') {
> + /*
> + * For absolute NT symlinks skip leading "\\??\\" in PrintName as
> + * PrintName is user visible location in DOS/Win32 format (not in NT format).
> + */
> + poff = 4;
> + plen -= 2 * poff;
> + }
> + len = sizeof(*buf) + plen + slen;
> buf = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!buf) {
> rc = -ENOMEM;
> @@ -74,17 +179,17 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
>
> buf->ReparseTag = cpu_to_le32(IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK);
> buf->ReparseDataLength = cpu_to_le16(len - sizeof(struct reparse_data_buffer));
> +
> buf->SubstituteNameOffset = cpu_to_le16(plen);
> - buf->SubstituteNameLength = cpu_to_le16(plen);
> - memcpy(&buf->PathBuffer[plen], path, plen);
> + buf->SubstituteNameLength = cpu_to_le16(slen);
> + memcpy(&buf->PathBuffer[plen], path, slen);
> +
> buf->PrintNameOffset = 0;
> buf->PrintNameLength = cpu_to_le16(plen);
> - memcpy(buf->PathBuffer, path, plen);
> + memcpy(buf->PathBuffer, path+poff, plen);
> +
> buf->Flags = cpu_to_le32(*symname != '/' ? SYMLINK_FLAG_RELATIVE : 0);
> - if (*sym != sep)
> - buf->Flags = cpu_to_le32(SYMLINK_FLAG_RELATIVE);
>
> - convert_delimiter(sym, '/');
> iov.iov_base = buf;
> iov.iov_len = len;
> new = smb2_get_reparse_inode(&data, inode->i_sb, xid,
> @@ -95,6 +200,7 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
> else
> rc = PTR_ERR(new);
> out:
> + kfree(sym);
> kfree(path);
> cifs_free_open_info(&data);
> kfree(buf);
> @@ -540,6 +646,9 @@ int smb2_parse_native_symlink(char **target, const char *buf, unsigned int len,
> char sep = CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb);
> char *linux_target = NULL;
> char *smb_target = NULL;
> + int symlinkroot_len;
> + int abs_path_len;
> + char *abs_path;
> int levels;
> int rc;
> int i;
> @@ -569,7 +678,123 @@ int smb2_parse_native_symlink(char **target, const char *buf, unsigned int len,
> goto out;
> }
>
> - if (smb_target[0] == sep && relative) {
> + if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) && !relative) {
> + /*
> + * This is an absolute symlink from the server which does not
> + * support POSIX paths, so the symlink is in NT-style path.
> + * So convert it to absolute Linux symlink target path. Root of
> + * the NT-style path for symlinks is specified in "symlinkroot"
> + * mount option.
> + *
> + * Root of the DOS and Win32 paths is at NT path \??\
> + * It means that DOS/Win32 path C:\folder\file.txt is
> + * NT path \??\C:\folder\file.txt
> + *
> + * NT systems have some well-known object symlinks in their NT
> + * hierarchy, which is needed to take into account when resolving
> + * other symlinks. Most commonly used symlink paths are:
> + * \?? -> \GLOBAL??
> + * \DosDevices -> \??
> + * \GLOBAL??\GLOBALROOT -> \
> + * \GLOBAL??\Global -> \GLOBAL??
> + * \GLOBAL??\NUL -> \Device\Null
> + * \GLOBAL??\UNC -> \Device\Mup
> + * \GLOBAL??\PhysicalDrive0 -> \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 (for each harddisk)
> + * \GLOBAL??\A: -> \Device\Floppy0 (if A: is the first floppy)
> + * \GLOBAL??\C: -> \Device\HarddiskVolume1 (if C: is the first harddisk)
> + * \GLOBAL??\D: -> \Device\CdRom0 (if D: is first cdrom)
> + * \SystemRoot -> \Device\Harddisk0\Partition1\WINDOWS (or where is NT system installed)
> + * \Volume{...} -> \Device\HarddiskVolume1 (where ... is system generated guid)
> + *
> + * In most common cases, absolute NT symlinks points to path on
> + * DOS/Win32 drive letter, system-specific Volume or on UNC share.
> + * Here are few examples of commonly used absolute NT symlinks
> + * created by mklink.exe tool:
> + * \??\C:\folder\file.txt
> + * \??\\C:\folder\file.txt
> + * \??\UNC\server\share\file.txt
> + * \??\\UNC\server\share\file.txt
> + * \??\Volume{b75e2c83-0000-0000-0000-602f00000000}\folder\file.txt
> + *
> + * It means that the most common path prefix \??\ is also NT path
> + * symlink (to \GLOBAL??). It is less common that second path
> + * separator is double backslash, but it is valid.
> + *
> + * Volume guid is randomly generated by the target system and so
> + * only the target system knows the mapping between guid and the
> + * hardisk number. Over SMB it is not possible to resolve this
> + * mapping, therefore symlinks pointing to target location of
> + * volume guids are totally unusable over SMB.
> + *
> + * For now parse only symlink paths available for DOS and Win32.
> + * Those are paths with \??\ prefix or paths which points to \??\
> + * via other NT symlink (\DosDevices\, \GLOBAL??\, ...).
> + */
> + abs_path = smb_target;
> +globalroot:
> + if (strstarts(abs_path, "\\??\\"))
> + abs_path += sizeof("\\??\\")-1;
> + else if (strstarts(abs_path, "\\DosDevices\\"))
> + abs_path += sizeof("\\DosDevices\\")-1;
> + else if (strstarts(abs_path, "\\GLOBAL??\\"))
> + abs_path += sizeof("\\GLOBAL??\\")-1;
> + else {
> + /* Unhandled absolute symlink, points outside of DOS/Win32 */
> + cifs_dbg(VFS,
> + "absolute symlink '%s' cannot be converted from NT format "
> + "because points to unknown target\n",
> + smb_target);
> + rc = -EIO;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + /* Sometimes path separator after \?? is double backslash */
> + if (abs_path[0] == '\\')
> + abs_path++;
> +
> + while (strstarts(abs_path, "Global\\"))
> + abs_path += sizeof("Global\\")-1;
> +
> + if (strstarts(abs_path, "GLOBALROOT\\")) {
> + /* Label globalroot requires path with leading '\\', so do not trim '\\' */
> + abs_path += sizeof("GLOBALROOT")-1;
> + goto globalroot;
> + }
> +
> + /* For now parse only paths to drive letters */
> + if (((abs_path[0] >= 'A' && abs_path[0] <= 'Z') ||
> + (abs_path[0] >= 'a' && abs_path[0] <= 'z')) &&
> + abs_path[1] == ':' &&
> + (abs_path[2] == '\\' || abs_path[2] == '\0')) {
> + /* Convert drive letter to lowercase and drop colon */
> + char drive_letter = abs_path[0];
> + if (drive_letter >= 'A' && drive_letter <= 'Z')
> + drive_letter += 'a'-'A';
> + abs_path++;
> + abs_path[0] = drive_letter;
> + } else {
> + /* Unhandled absolute symlink. Report an error. */
> + cifs_dbg(VFS,
> + "absolute symlink '%s' cannot be converted from NT format "
> + "because points to unknown target\n",
> + smb_target);
> + rc = -EIO;
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> + abs_path_len = strlen(abs_path)+1;
> + symlinkroot_len = strlen(cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot);
> + if (cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot[symlinkroot_len-1] == '/')
> + symlinkroot_len--;
> + linux_target = kmalloc(symlinkroot_len + 1 + abs_path_len, GFP_KERNEL);
> + if (!linux_target) {
> + rc = -ENOMEM;
> + goto out;
> + }
> + memcpy(linux_target, cifs_sb->ctx->symlinkroot, symlinkroot_len);
> + linux_target[symlinkroot_len] = '/';
> + memcpy(linux_target + symlinkroot_len + 1, abs_path, abs_path_len);
> + } else if (smb_target[0] == sep && relative) {
> /*
> * This is a relative SMB symlink from the top of the share,
> * which is the top level directory of the Linux mount point.
> @@ -598,6 +823,12 @@ int smb2_parse_native_symlink(char **target, const char *buf, unsigned int len,
> }
> memcpy(linux_target + levels*3, smb_target+1, smb_target_len); /* +1 to skip leading sep */
> } else {
> + /*
> + * This is either an absolute symlink in POSIX-style format
> + * or relative SMB symlink from the current directory.
> + * These paths have same format as Linux symlinks, so no
> + * conversion is needed.
> + */
> linux_target = smb_target;
> smb_target = NULL;
> }
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
--
Thanks,
Steve
