On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 09:59:45PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 05:35:52PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 08:52:55PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> > > While trying to track down some NFS problems with BTRFS, I kept noticing I was
> > > getting -EACCESS for no apparent reason. Eric Paris and printk() helped me
> > > figure out that it was SELinux that was giving me grief, with the following
> > > denial
> > >
> > > type=AVC msg=audit(1290013638.413:95): avc: denied { 0x800000 } for pid=1772
> > > comm="nfsd" name="" dev=sda1 ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0
> > > tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=file
> > >
> > > Turns out this is because in d_obtain_alias if we can't find an alias we create
> > > one and do all the normal instantiation stuff, but we don't do the
> > > security_d_instantiate.
> > >
> > > Usually we are protected from getting a hashed dentry that hasn't yet run
> > > security_d_instantiate() by the parent's i_mutex, but obviously this isn't an
> > > option there, so in order to deal with the case that a second thread comes in
> > > and finds our new dentry before we get to run security_d_instantiate(), we go
> > > ahead and call it if we find a dentry already. Eric assures me that this is ok
> > > as the code checks to see if the dentry has been initialized already so calling
> > > security_d_instantiate() against the same dentry multiple times is ok. With
> > > this patch I'm no longer getting errant -EACCESS values.
> >
> > Thanks, I can't see any reason that wouldn't work.
>
> (FWIW, I also ran my usual nfs regression tests with this applied. They
> don't exercise the problem you were seeing, but maybe it's at least some
> sort of sanity check.)
>
Oh I should have mentioned the testing I gave it. With BTRFS I could regularly
reproduce this by doing the following
SERVER
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/btrfs
btrfs subvol create /mnt/btrfs/foo
cp mutt.tar.gz /mnt/btrfs/foo
CLIENT
mount server:/mnt/btrfs /mnt/test
cd /mnt/test/foo
tar xzvf mutt.tar.gz
cd mutt
ls
SERVER
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
CLIENT
ls
and bam I'd get -EACCESS every time. I did this a bunch of times to make sure
it didn't happen anymore plus variations of the above. Thanks,
Josef
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