Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfs: Fix spurios EPERM when mkdir of existing dentry

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> On Jul 7, 2016, at 01:53, Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> It's great when we can shave an extra RPC, but not at the expense
> of correctness.
> We should not return EPERM (from vfs_create/mknod/mkdir) if the
> name already exists, even if we have no write access in parent.
> 
> Since the check in nfs_permission is clearly not enough to stave
> off this, just throw in the extra READ access to actually
> go through.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nfs/dir.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
> index d8015a0..8c7835b 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
> @@ -1383,8 +1383,10 @@ struct dentry *nfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry * dentry, unsigned in
> 	/*
> 	 * If we're doing an exclusive create, optimize away the lookup
> 	 * but don't hash the dentry.
> +	 * This optimization only works if we can write in the parent.
> 	 */
> -	if (nfs_is_exclusive_create(dir, flags))
> +	if (nfs_is_exclusive_create(dir, flags) &&
> +	    (inode_permission(dir, MAY_WRITE | MAY_READ | MAY_EXEC) == 0))
> 		return NULL;
> 

NACK. The only write permission we should care about on the client side is whether or not the filesystem is mounted read-only. All other permissions are checked by the server.

Cheers
  Trond

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