From: Jan Koester <jan.koester@tuxist.de>
To: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>,
Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/6] ksmbd: Windows SIDs for user and group ids
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 07:19:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1793168155.git.jan.koester@tuxist.de> (raw)
Hi,
Windows names owners and ACL entries by SID; for a domain account that
is its objectSid. ksmbd shows a file's owner, group and POSIX ACL
entries as S-1-22 SIDs or as its server domain SID + uid, which a
Windows client can't relate to the domain's accounts, and a SID a client
sets for a domain account doesn't map back to an id at all. This series
lets user space, which knows the directory, translate between ids and
SIDs in both directions, for accounts that are logged in or not.
It applies on top of the UUID/GUID id RFC (uid_r v2,
<cover.1792552161.git.jan.koester@tuxist.de>) and the NTLM pass-through
series (<cover.1792345559.git.jan.koester@gmx.net>); the netlink events
it adds follow theirs. Patches 1-3 are independent of uid_r in substance;
I can rebase them onto mainline to go on their own if that is preferred.
1/6 ksmbd ignored the owner and group of a descriptor without a DACL,
which is what Windows sends to take ownership (and smbcacls -C/-G),
and still reported success.
2/6 After setting a POSIX ACL from a DACL, the following chmod used the
owning group's bits as the mask and left named entries without
effect.
3/6 passes the domain of an NTLM login (NTLMSSP DomainName) to user
space in the formerly reserved room of the login request, so a user
space serving several domains can tell DOMAIN\user from OTHER\user.
4/6 adds KSMBD_EVENT_SID_MAP_REQUEST/RESPONSE for a user space that sets
KSMBD_GLOBAL_FLAG_SID_MAP at startup: the SID of an id ksmbd shows,
the id of a domain SID a client sets. Answers are cached (mappings
5 minutes, "none" 1 minute, "couldn't say" never). Showing a
descriptor never fails on a missing mapping; setting one fails with
STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS, STATUS_INVALID_OWNER or
STATUS_INVALID_PRIMARY_GROUP instead of being applied in part or
ignored. The session user also matches ACEs for its groups' SIDs,
like a Windows access token.
5/6 shows classic users as S-1-22-1-<uid> instead of the per-server
domain SID + uid, and still takes the old form.
6/6 documents it in Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst.
The user space side is sharedd (FenrirOS' ksmbd user space) with
adconnect for the directory lookups. Tested in a VM against a directory
server: owner and group of accounts that aren't logged in, ownership and
group changes, DACL round trips, a session getting access only through
a nested group, inherited CREATOR OWNER ACEs, and the directory going
away (cached mappings stay, new ones fail cleanly).
Questions:
- Is a netlink round trip per uncached id acceptable here, or would you
rather have user space push the mappings of a session's ids at login
only? The latter can't cover owners that aren't logged in.
- compare_sids() matches a SID against any prefix of it; the token uses
an exact comparison. Should the existing callers move to that too?
Thanks,
Jan
Jan Koester (6):
ksmbd: don't ignore the owner and group of a descriptor without a DACL
ksmbd: keep named ACL entries effective when a DACL sets a POSIX ACL
ksmbd: pass the domain of an NTLM login to user space
ksmbd: map user and group ids to Windows SIDs through user space
ksmbd: show classic users as S-1-22-1-<uid> on every server
Documentation: uid_r: describe ksmbd's SID mapping
Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst | 18 +-
fs/smb/server/Makefile | 2 +-
fs/smb/server/idmap.c | 320 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/smb/server/idmap.h | 25 ++
fs/smb/server/ksmbd_netlink.h | 62 ++++-
fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_config.c | 21 +-
fs/smb/server/mgmt/user_config.h | 7 +-
fs/smb/server/server.c | 2 +
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 35 ++-
fs/smb/server/smbacl.c | 256 ++++++++++++++++++---
fs/smb/server/smbacl.h | 18 +-
fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.c | 72 +++++-
fs/smb/server/transport_ipc.h | 5 +-
13 files changed, 793 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 fs/smb/server/idmap.c
create mode 100644 fs/smb/server/idmap.h
base-commit: bdd1d550e3f518d445d199c8ee73dc962c5abab8
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2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-28 6:19 Jan Koester [this message]
2026-10-28 6:19 ` [RFC PATCH 1/6] ksmbd: don't ignore the owner and group of a descriptor without a DACL Jan Koester
2026-10-28 6:19 ` [RFC PATCH 2/6] ksmbd: keep named ACL entries effective when a DACL sets a POSIX ACL Jan Koester
2026-10-28 6:20 ` [RFC PATCH 3/6] ksmbd: pass the domain of an NTLM login to user space Jan Koester
2026-10-28 6:20 ` [RFC PATCH 4/6] ksmbd: map user and group ids to Windows SIDs through " Jan Koester
2026-10-28 6:20 ` [RFC PATCH 5/6] ksmbd: show classic users as S-1-22-1-<uid> on every server Jan Koester
2026-10-28 6:20 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] Documentation: uid_r: describe ksmbd's SID mapping Jan Koester
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