Re: [resolved] Filesystem (directory) permissions meaning difference for x86_64 and x86 for 3.1?

["Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>]

On Wed, 09 November 2011 Bruno Prémont wrote:
> On a x86_64 system I'm getting permission denied when trying to chdir()
> into a directory where I have only 'x' permissions (be it with unix
> permissions or with posix ACLs).
> For the same layout of directory I can successfully chdir() on x86 as I
> can with older kernels of 2.6 series.
> 
> In both cases the filesystem is tmpfs with support for posix ACLs and
> kernel is 3.1.0.
> 
> 
> Directory layout:
> drwx--x---  3 root test   60 Nov  9 21:14 /tmp/btest
> drwxrwx---  2 root test   40 Nov  9 21:14 /tmp/btest/subtest
> drwxr-x---+ 3 root root   60 Nov  9 21:10 /tmp/test
> drwxrwx---+ 2 root root   40 Nov  9 21:10 /tmp/test/subtest
> 
> Posix ACLs
> # file: /tmp/test
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rwx
> group::r-x
> group:test:--x
> mask::r-x
> other::---
> 
> # file: test/subtest/
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rwx
> group::r-x
> group:test:rwx
> mask::rwx
> other::---
> 
> 
> When executing as user test (with test as only group), on x86_64 I get
> EPERM on chdir(X) where X is any one of the 4 directories above.
> 
> On x86 I can chdir() into the directory without issue (as expected),
> and when in /tmp/test (or /tmp/btest) I get EPERM when trying to list
> contents - expected as well. Under subtest I can list content.
> 
> The same results are obtained on XFS filesystem.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong?

The issue was two entries in /etc/group for the same group name but with
two distinct GIDs :/
This explains why I could not reproduce on a different system!

Bruno