From: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
To: qemu-block@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>,
Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Brian Song <hibriansong@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 07/25] fuse: Fix mount options
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 16:08:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260309150856.26800-8-hreitz@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260309150856.26800-1-hreitz@redhat.com>
Since I actually took a look into how mounting with libfuse works[1], I
now know that the FUSE mount options are not exactly standard mount
system call options. Specifically:
- We should add "nosuid,nodev,noatime" because that is going to be
translated into the respective MS_ mount flags; and those flags make
sense for us.
- We can set rw/ro to make the mount writable or not. It makes sense to
set this flag to produce a better error message for read-only exports
(EROFS instead of EACCES).
This changes behavior as can be seen in iotest 308: It is no longer
possible to modify metadata of read-only exports.
Similarly, in fuse-allow-other, we must now make the export writable
to use SETATTR.
In addition, in the comment, we can note that the FUSE mount() system
call actually expects some more parameters that we can omit because
fusermount3 (i.e. libfuse) will figure them out by itself:
- fd: /dev/fuse fd
- rootmode: Inode mode of the root node
- user_id/group_id: Mounter's UID/GID
[1] It invokes fusermount3, an SUID libfuse helper program, which parses
and processes some mount options before actually invoking the
mount() system call.
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
---
block/export/fuse.c | 14 +++++++++++---
tests/qemu-iotests/308 | 4 ++--
tests/qemu-iotests/308.out | 3 ++-
tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other | 3 ++-
tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other.out | 9 ++++++---
5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/export/fuse.c b/block/export/fuse.c
index 82560ca071..0422cf4b8a 100644
--- a/block/export/fuse.c
+++ b/block/export/fuse.c
@@ -246,10 +246,18 @@ static int mount_fuse_export(FuseExport *exp, Error **errp)
int ret;
/*
- * max_read needs to match what fuse_init() sets.
- * max_write need not be supplied.
+ * Note that these mount options differ from what we would pass to a direct
+ * mount() call:
+ * - nosuid, nodev, and noatime are not understood by the kernel; libfuse
+ * uses those options to construct the mount flags (MS_*)
+ * - The FUSE kernel driver requires additional options (fd, rootmode,
+ * user_id, group_id); these will be set by libfuse.
+ * Note that max_read is set here, while max_write is set via the FUSE INIT
+ * operation.
*/
- mount_opts = g_strdup_printf("max_read=%zu,default_permissions%s",
+ mount_opts = g_strdup_printf("%s,nosuid,nodev,noatime,max_read=%zu,"
+ "default_permissions%s",
+ exp->writable ? "rw" : "ro",
FUSE_MAX_BOUNCE_BYTES,
exp->allow_other ? ",allow_other" : "");
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/308 b/tests/qemu-iotests/308
index 6eced3aefb..033d5cbe22 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/308
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/308
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ stat -c 'Permissions pre-chmod: %a' "$EXT_MP"
chmod u+w "$EXT_MP" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
stat -c 'Permissions post-+w: %a' "$EXT_MP"
-# But that we can set, say, +x (if we are so inclined)
+# Same for other flags, like, say +x
chmod u+x "$EXT_MP" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
stat -c 'Permissions post-+x: %a' "$EXT_MP"
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ output=$($QEMU_IO -f raw -c 'write -P 42 1M 64k' "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 \
# Expected reference output: Opening the file fails because it has no
# write permission
-reference="Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Permission denied"
+reference="Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Read-only file system"
if echo "$output" | grep -q "$reference"; then
echo "Writing to read-only export failed: OK"
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out
index e5e233691d..aa96faab6d 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ Images are identical.
Permissions pre-chmod: 400
chmod: changing permissions of 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.fuse': Read-only file system
Permissions post-+w: 400
-Permissions post-+x: 500
+chmod: changing permissions of 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.fuse': Read-only file system
+Permissions post-+x: 400
=== Mount over existing file ===
{'execute': 'block-export-add',
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other b/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other
index 19f494aefb..eaa39f8f23 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other
@@ -101,7 +101,8 @@ run_permission_test()
fuse_export_add 'export' \
"'mountpoint': '$EXT_MP',
- 'allow-other': '$1'"
+ 'allow-other': '$1',
+ 'writable': true"
# Should always work
echo '(Removing all permissions)'
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other.out
index 3219fc35e0..62660b40bf 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/tests/fuse-allow-other.out
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=65536
'id': 'export',
'node-name': 'node-format',
'mountpoint': 'TEST_DIR/fuse-export',
- 'allow-other': 'off'
+ 'allow-other': 'off',
+ 'writable': true
} }
{"return": {}}
(Removing all permissions)
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@ stat: cannot statx 'fuse-export': Permission denied
'id': 'export',
'node-name': 'node-format',
'mountpoint': 'TEST_DIR/fuse-export',
- 'allow-other': 'on'
+ 'allow-other': 'on',
+ 'writable': true
} }
{"return": {}}
(Removing all permissions)
@@ -68,7 +70,8 @@ Permissions seen by nobody: 440
'id': 'export',
'node-name': 'node-format',
'mountpoint': 'TEST_DIR/fuse-export',
- 'allow-other': 'auto'
+ 'allow-other': 'auto',
+ 'writable': true
} }
{"return": {}}
(Removing all permissions)
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-09 15:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-09 15:08 [PATCH v5 00/25] export/fuse: Use coroutines and multi-threading Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 01/25] fuse: Copy write buffer content before polling Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 02/25] fuse: Ensure init clean-up even with error_fatal Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 03/25] fuse: Remove superfluous empty line Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 04/25] fuse: Explicitly set inode ID to 1 Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 05/25] fuse: Change setup_... to mount_fuse_export() Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 06/25] fuse: Destroy session on mount_fuse_export() fail Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` Hanna Czenczek [this message]
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 08/25] fuse: Set direct_io and parallel_direct_writes Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 09/25] fuse: Introduce fuse_{at,de}tach_handlers() Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 10/25] fuse: Introduce fuse_{inc,dec}_in_flight() Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 11/25] fuse: Add halted flag Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 12/25] fuse: fuse_{read,write}: Rename length to blk_len Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 13/25] iotests/308: Use conv=notrunc to test growability Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 14/25] fuse: Explicitly handle non-grow post-EOF accesses Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 15/25] block: Move qemu_fcntl_addfl() into osdep.c Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 16/25] fuse: Drop permission changes in fuse_do_truncate Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 17/25] fuse: Manually process requests (without libfuse) Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 18/25] fuse: Reduce max read size Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 19/25] fuse: Process requests in coroutines Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 20/25] block/export: Add multi-threading interface Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 21/25] iotests/307: Test multi-thread export interface Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 22/25] fuse: Make shared export state atomic Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 23/25] fuse: Implement multi-threading Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 24/25] qapi/block-export: Document FUSE's multi-threading Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-09 15:08 ` [PATCH v5 25/25] iotests/308: Add multi-threading sanity test Hanna Czenczek
2026-03-10 11:13 ` [PATCH v5 00/25] export/fuse: Use coroutines and multi-threading Kevin Wolf
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