On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 06:31:30PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> The list of security flavors that mountd allows for the NFSv4
> pseudo-fs is constructed from the union of flavors of all current
> exports.
>
> exports(5) documents that the default security flavor for an
> export, if "sec=" is not specified, is "sys". Suppose
> /etc/exports contains:
>
> /a *(rw)
> /b *(rw,sec=krb5:krb5i:krb5p)
>
> The resulting security flavor list for the pseudo-fs is missing
> "sec=sys". /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.export/content contains:
>
> /a *(rw,root_squash,sync,wdelay,no_subtree_check,
> uuid=095c95bc:08e4407a:91ab8601:05fe0bbf)
> /b *(rw,root_squash,sync,wdelay,no_subtree_check,
> uuid=2a6fe811:0cf044a7:8fc75ebe:65180068,
> sec=390003:390004:390005)
> / *(ro,root_squash,sync,no_wdelay,v4root,fsid=0,
> uuid=2a6fe811:0cf044a7:8fc75ebe:65180068,
> sec=390003:390004:390005)
>
> The root entry is not correct, as there does exist an export whose
> unspecified default security flavor is "sys". The security settings
> on the root cause sec=sys mount attempts to be incorrectly rejected.
>
> The reason is that when the line in /etc/exports for "/a" is parsed,
> the e_secinfo list for that exportent is left empty. Thus the union
> of e_secinfo lists created by set_pseudofs_security() is
> "krb5:krb5i:krb5p".
>
> I fixed this by ensuring that if no "sec=" option is specified for
> an export, its e_secinfo list gets at least an entry for AUTH_UNIX.
>
> [ Yes, we could make the security flavors allowed for the pseudo-fs
> a fixed list of all flavors the server supports. That becomes
> complicated by the special meaning of AUTH_NULL, and we still have
> to check /etc/exports for whether Kerberos flavors should be listed.
> I opted for a simple approach for now. ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Makes sense to me.--b.
> ---
>
> support/nfs/exports.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/support/nfs/exports.c b/support/nfs/exports.c
> index 84a2b08..6c08a2b 100644
> --- a/support/nfs/exports.c
> +++ b/support/nfs/exports.c
> @@ -643,6 +643,8 @@ bad_option:
> cp++;
> }
>
> + if (ep->e_secinfo[0].flav == NULL)
> + secinfo_addflavor(find_flavor("sys"), ep);
> fix_pseudoflavor_flags(ep);
> ep->e_squids = squids;
> ep->e_sqgids = sqgids;
>
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