Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:03:21AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> Hi Grant !
> 
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:52:44AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:05:44 -0700, dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org> wrote:
> > 
> > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:00:40PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> > >Ah, think I see the problem now:
> > >
> > >--- kernel-source-2.4.27.orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c	2007-01-19 17:53:57.247695476 -0700
> > >+++ kernel-source-2.4.27/fs/smbfs/proc.c	2007-01-19 17:49:07.480161733 -0700
> > >@@ -1997,7 +1997,7 @@
> > > 		fattr->f_mode = (server->mnt->dir_mode & (S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO)) | S_IFDIR;
> > > 	else if ( (server->mnt->flags & SMB_MOUNT_FMODE) &&
> > > 	          !(S_ISDIR(fattr->f_mode)) )
> > >-		fattr->f_mode = (server->mnt->file_mode & (S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO)) | S_IFREG;
> > >+		fattr->f_mode = (server->mnt->file_mode & (S_IRWXU | S_IRWXG | S_IRWXO)) | (fattr->f_mode & S_IFMT);
> > > 
> > > }
> > > 
> > client running 2.4.34 with above patch, server is running 2.6.19.2 to 
> > eliminate it from the problem space (hopefully ;) :
> > grant@sempro:/home/other$ uname -r
> > 2.4.34b
> > grant@sempro:/home/other$ ls -l
> > total 9
> > drwxr-xr-x 1 grant wheel 4096 2007-01-21 11:44 dir/
> > drwxr-xr-x 1 grant wheel 4096 2007-01-21 11:44 dirlink/
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 grant wheel   15 2007-01-21 11:43 file*
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 grant wheel   15 2007-01-21 11:43 filelink*
> 
> It seems to me that there is a difference, because filelink now appears the
> same size as file. It's just as if we had hard links instead of symlinks.

I was running into this yesterday - turns out that Debian's current
smbfs package contains a patch that checks for user passed options,
and disables unix capabilities in that case. It was added in
3.0.14a-4. I've filed a bug requesting the removal of this patch:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408033

Grant: Do you know if are you running a version of smbfs w/ this
       patch?

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dann frazier