On May 15, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While trying to update a kernel and modules on one of my test systems, > I was greeted by these errors: > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drx39xyj/drx39xyj.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/option.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-wm8962.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/modules.alias.bin: Cannot utime > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/modules.alias: Cannot utime > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > Searching google wasn't helpful, as all the "Cannot utime" errors that > google could find are followed by an errno string. > > stracing at first sight didn't seem to be helpful, as no syscalls (apart > from openat() with a pre-existing file) were failing. > > Having recently updated to fc21 tar generating the archive, I thought > maybe it was a tar format bug between fc21 tar and the target's tar. > That was until I tried to "apt-get source tar" on the target, and was > greeted by the same error. > > So I then tried untaring the tar source archive onto a ramfs, which > worked without complaint. The difference being that it's a root NFS > box, and so I was untaring onto NFS. > > Here's the entry from /proc/mounts: > > x.y.z.221:/var/boot/ci on / type nfs (rw,nolock,vers=4,addr=x.y.z.221,clientaddr=a.b.c.55) > > Looking closer at the strace reveals this: > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC, 0600) = -1 EEXIST (File exists) > unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", 0) = 0 > openat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC, 0600) = 4 > write(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0(\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 > ... > write(4, "\300H\0\0\34\345\1\0\314H\0\0\34\345\1\0\330H\0\0\34\345\1\0<I\0\0\34\370\1\0"..., 7312) = 7312 > dup2(4, 4) = 4 > fstat64(4, {st_mode=0757221, st_size=13181880119170311768, ...}) = 21 > write(2, "tar: ", 5) = 5 > write(2, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/dr"..., 79) = 79 > write(2, "\n", 1) = 1 > fchown32(4, 0, 0) = 0 > fchmod(4, 0664) = 0 > close(4) = 0 > > Look closely at that fstat64, and you'll notice that it's returning crap. This is likely fixed by: http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=143095122604344&w=2 > The file is not 11 exabytes, and it definitely would not have an octal > mode of 0757221 at this point, having only just been created by the > kernel. > > For comparison, untaring onto a ramfs filesystem gives this: > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC, 0600) = 4 > write(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0(\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096 > ... > write(4, "\300H\0\0\34\345\1\0\314H\0\0\34\345\1\0\330H\0\0\34\345\1\0<I\0\0\34\370\1\0"..., 7312) = 7312 > dup2(4, 4) = 4 > fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=83088, ...}) = 0 > utimensat(4, NULL, {{1431698625, 21832730}, {1431694673, 0}}, 0) = 0 > fchown32(4, 0, 0) = 0 > fchmod(4, 0664) = 0 > close(4) = 0 > > The reason for the strange dup2() above is this code in tar: > > /* Require that at least one of FD or FILE are valid. Works around > a Linux bug where futimens (AT_FDCWD, NULL) changes "." rather > than failing. */ > if (!file) > { > if (fd < 0) > { > errno = EBADF; > return -1; > } > if (dup2 (fd, fd) != fd) > return -1; > } > > The call path in tar is: > > fdutimensat (fd, dir, file, ts, atflag) > `-futimens (fd, ts) > `-fdutimens (fd, NULL, ts); > > I'm assuming that the reason for this fstat() call is: > > # if __linux__ > /* As recently as Linux kernel 2.6.32 (Dec 2009), several file > systems (xfs, ntfs-3g) have bugs with a single UTIME_OMIT, > but work if both times are either explicitly specified or > UTIME_NOW. Work around it with a preparatory [f]stat prior > to calling futimens/utimensat; fortunately, there is not much > timing impact due to the extra syscall even on file systems > where UTIME_OMIT would have worked. FIXME: Simplify this in > 2012, when file system bugs are no longer common. */ > if (adjustment_needed == 2) > { > if (fd < 0 ? stat (file, &st) : fstat (fd, &st)) > return -1; > if (ts[0].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT) > ts[0] = get_stat_atime (&st); > else if (ts[1].tv_nsec == UTIME_OMIT) > ts[1] = get_stat_mtime (&st); > /* Note that st is good, in case utimensat gives ENOSYS. */ > adjustment_needed++; > } > # endif /* __linux__ */ > # if HAVE_UTIMENSAT > if (fd < 0) > { > result = utimensat (AT_FDCWD, file, ts, 0); > # ifdef __linux__ > /* Work around a kernel bug: > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/442352 > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/449910 > It appears that utimensat can mistakenly return 280 rather > than -1 upon ENOSYS failure. > FIXME: remove in 2010 or whenever the offending kernels > are no longer in common use. */ > if (0 < result) > errno = ENOSYS; > # endif /* __linux__ */ > if (result == 0 || errno != ENOSYS) > { > utimensat_works_really = 1; > return result; > } > } > # endif /* HAVE_UTIMENSAT */ -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html