On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:13:06PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 03:40:10PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 11:06:43AM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote: > > > Since nfs-utils 1.2.1, there are some problems with crossmnt usage. See > > > Debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/567546, but in short the problem seems > > > to be that sub-mounts (/a/b) take the top-level mount (/a) options > > > instead of their own, due to a bug in how mountd generates the crossmnt > > > subexports. > > > > > > I checked that reverting the write_secinfo changes in commit > > > bc0a6ab03089fc1ea4fea26ed9635c2cc918b01b fix the issue, but that might > > > only be a side effect, not the actual cause. > > > > > > A short test: > > > - have /a and /a/b exported, with different flags (e.g. ro on /a, rw on > > > /a/b) > > > - restart the mountd, clear exports, etc. > > > - try a mount on the client of /a/b, it gets readonly > > > - umount & remount, it's now r/w > > > - however, clearing the kernel export table (exportfs -f), makes the > > > next mount again get read-only > > > > > > Disabling crossmnt fixes the issue completely, so I would venture to > > > guess that the subexports creation code has some issue, but I don't know > > > enough of this to be able to debug it. > > > > Thanks for the report. What's the latest nfs-utils version you've > > tested? > > 1.2.2 - which is broken, as is 1.2.1. 1.2.0 works, because of the above > commit which, again, I presume un-hides the problem. > > Also there are reports of older versions being broken. > > > On a quick skim of the latest code I see one clear bug > > (path[strlen(path)] will never be '/'!), but that should have caused > > crossmnt to never get enforced at all rather than to override anything. > > > > Could you retest the latest from the upstream git, with this patch > > applied, and see if the problem is still present? > > I've tested right now with > git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/steved/nfs-utils.git (I hope this is the right > upstream repo) plus the patch - still happens, no change. > > One thing that is interesting is that only the first mount gets the > wrong options, if the client unmounts and remounts (at this point the > exports are in the kernel's cache) the options are right. As long as the > kernel cache is populated, the options are right, if one clears the > cache, the first mount will be wrong. Maybe this helps, I find it an > interesting behaviour. > > > Then if it is I'll try to go reproduce it myself.... > > For reference, here is the exports file I use for tests: > /srv/nfs client(sec=sys,ro,sync,fsid=0,subtree_check,crossmnt) > /srv/nfs/homes client(sec=sys,rw,sync,subtree_check) Is /srv/nfs/homes a mountpoint, or are both of these on the same filesystem? --b. > > And here is the fstab entry on the client: > server:/srv/nfs/homes /home nfs noauto,hard,bg,sec=sys,proto=tcp 0 0 > > The rest of the tools on server and client are Debian's nfs-utils 1.2.1 > (they have just a few, very trivial and unrelated, patches). The problem > manifests (in my case) with both nfsv3/sec=sys and nfsv4/sec=krb*. > > Thanks! > iustin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
