Re: reconnect_path fails with EACCES

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Its no_subtree_check exported.

Underneath filesystem (->permission) doesn't support capabilities and
hence EACCES is being returned. The filesystem is proprietary.
I figured it out later that they don't support capabilities.

Thanks,
Rajesh


On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:42 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 02:55:28AM +0530, Rajesh Ghanekar wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am facing problem with reconnect_path failing with EACCES when doing
>> lookup_one_len. I have 2 users goind to same directory, one with uid=0
>> and another with uid=xxx. Sometime for uid=0 request, nfsd is still is using
>> uid=xxx (as it was used previously), as uid=xxx doesn't have any permissions
>> on the directory.
>>
>> Should this probably do nfsd_setuser_and_check_port before
>> the below code in nfsd_set_fh_dentry()? As it carries older
>> fsuid and fsgid, can it create issues. This always happens
>> with disconnected dentries.
>>
>>         if (exp->ex_flags & NFSEXP_NOSUBTREECHECK) {
>>                 /* Elevate privileges so that the lack of 'r' or 'x'
>>                  * permission on some parent directory will
>>                  * not stop exportfs_decode_fh from being able
>>                  * to reconnect a directory into the dentry cache.
>>                  * The same problem can affect "SUBTREECHECK" exports,
>>                  * but as nfsd_acceptable depends on correct
>>                  * access control settings being in effect, we cannot
>>                  * fix that case easily.
>
> Are you exporting with subtree_check or no_subtree_check?  (What does
> "exportfs -v" say?)
>
> In the no_subtree_check case, the cap_raise_nfsd_set() is intended to
> override file permissions, so the uid and gid shouldn't matter.
>
> --b.
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