Re: NFS client broken in Linus' tip

Trond Myklebust
2014-01-31T20:59:32Z

On Thu, 2014-01-30 at 15:38 +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 06:32:08AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 02:27:52PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > Yes and no. I still end up with an empty /etc/mtab, but the file now
> > > exists. However, I can create and echo data into /etc/mtab, but it seems
> > > that can't happen at boot time.
> >
> > Odd. Can you disable CONFIG_NFSD_V3_ACL for now to isolate the issue?
>
> Unfortunately, that results in some problem at boot time, which
> ultimately ends up with the other three CPUs being stopped, and
> hence the original reason scrolls off the screen before it can be
> read... even at 1920p.
>
Hi Russell,

The following patch fixes the issue for me.

Cheers
Trond

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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:25:19 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fs: get_acl() must be allowed to return EOPNOTSUPP

posix_acl_xattr_get requires get_acl() to return EOPNOTSUPP if the
filesystem cannot support acls. This is needed for NFS, which can't
know whether or not the server supports acls until it tries to get/set
one.
This patch converts posix_acl_chmod and posix_acl_create to deal with
EOPNOTSUPP return values from get_acl().

Reported-by: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140130140834.GW15937@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
---
fs/posix_acl.c | 18 ++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/posix_acl.c b/fs/posix_acl.c
index 38bae5a0ea25..11c54fd51e16 100644
--- a/fs/posix_acl.c
+++ b/fs/posix_acl.c
@@ -521,8 +521,11 @@ posix_acl_chmod(struct inode *inode, umode_t mode)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;

acl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
- if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(acl))
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(acl)) {
+ if (acl == ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP))
+ return 0;
return PTR_ERR(acl);
+ }

ret = __posix_acl_chmod(&acl, GFP_KERNEL, mode);
if (ret)
@@ -544,14 +547,15 @@ posix_acl_create(struct inode *dir, umode_t *mode,
goto no_acl;

p = get_acl(dir, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
- if (IS_ERR(p))
+ if (IS_ERR(p)) {
+ if (p == ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP))
+ goto apply_umask;
return PTR_ERR(p);
-
- if (!p) {
- *mode &= ~current_umask();
- goto no_acl;
}

+ if (!p)
+ goto apply_umask;
+
*acl = posix_acl_clone(p, GFP_NOFS);
if (!*acl)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -575,6 +579,8 @@ posix_acl_create(struct inode *dir, umode_t *mode,
}
return 0;

+apply_umask:
+ *mode &= ~current_umask();
no_acl:
*default_acl = NULL;
*acl = NULL;
--
1.8.5.3

--
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer