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Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2022 09:07:52 +0900
From: asmadeus@...ewreck.org
To: Eric Van Hensbergen <evanhensbergen@...oud.com>
Cc: v9fs-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net, rminnich@...il.com,
lucho@...kov.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux_oss@...debyte.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] Don't assume UID 0 attach
Eric Van Hensbergen wrote on Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 06:52:06PM +0000:
> The writeback_fid fallback code assumes a root uid fallback which
> breaks many server configurations (which don't run as root). This
> patch switches to generic lookup which will follow argument
> guidence on access modes and default ids to use on failure.
Unfortunately this one will break writes to a file created as 400 I
think
That's the main reason we have this writeback fid afaik -- there are
cases where the user should be able to write to the file, but a plain
open/write won't work... I can't think of anything else than open 400
right now though
I'm sure there's an xfs_io command and xfstest for that, but for now:
python3 -c 'import os; f = os.open("testfile", os.O_CREAT + os.O_RDWR, 0o400); os.write(f, b"ok\n")'
iirc ganesha running as non-root just ignores root requests and opens as
current user-- this won't work for this particular case, but might be
good enough for you... With that said:
> There is a deeper underlying problem with writeback_fids in that
> this fallback is too standard and not an exception due to the way
> writeback mode works in the current implementation. Subsequent
> patches will try to associate writeback fids from the original user
> either by flushing on close or by holding onto fid until writeback
> completes.
If we can address this problem though I agree we should stop using
wrieback fids as much as we do.
Now fids are refcounted, I think we could just use the normal fid as
writeback fid (getting a ref), and the regular close will not clunk it
so delayed IOs will pass.
Worth a try?
--
Dominique
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