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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro
	<viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][Resend] coredump: call vfs_getattr() to get inode attributes
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:26:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1309303561.27467.9.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tyb9r6wh.fsf-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 23:19 +0200, Arnaud Giersch wrote: 
> From: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
> 
> In do_coredump(), call vfs_getattr() to get inode attributes, and do not
> get them directly from the fields of the inode struct.
> 
> Without this patch, when dumping core on an NFSv4 mount, and the i_uid
> field is not correctly filled at open time, the uid check fails, and an
> empty core dump is produced.
> 
> This apparently only happens when there was no "core" file before the
> dump.  If a "core" file owned by the current user is already present, it
> is correctly filled.
> 
> The reason is that decode_attr_owner() in fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c is not
> allowed to call the idmapper when it receives may_sleep = 0 (see commit
> 80e52aced138bb41b045a8595a87510f27d8d8c5, and some explanations in
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/33391).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnaud Giersch <arnaud.giersch-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>

This wants to be fixed in the NFS layer, not the VFS.

What we should do is the following:

     1. Save the string versions of user@domain/group@domain in the
        struct nfs4_opendata so that we can resolve them from the
        process context in _nfs4_proc_open(). 
     2. Fix nfs4_atomic_open() so that it revalidates any inode that has
        the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR flag set.

Cheers
   Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-28 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-28 21:19 [PATCH][Resend] coredump: call vfs_getattr() to get inode attributes Arnaud Giersch
     [not found] ` <87tyb9r6wh.fsf-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>
2011-06-28 23:26   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]

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