[PATCH] NFSD: MKNOD should return NFSERR_BADTYPE instead of NFSERR_INVAL

Chuck Lever
2020-10-23T14:41:16Z

A late paragraph of RFC 1813 Section 3.3.11 states:

| ... if the server does not support the target type or the
| target type is illegal, the error, NFS3ERR_BADTYPE, should
| be returned. Note that NF3REG, NF3DIR, and NF3LNK are
| illegal types for MKNOD.

The Linux NFS server incorrectly returns NFSERR_INVAL in these
cases.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c | 6 +-----
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
index 14468613d150..a633044b0dc1 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
@@ -316,10 +316,6 @@ nfsd3_proc_mknod(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
fh_copy(&resp->dirfh, &argp->fh);
fh_init(&resp->fh, NFS3_FHSIZE);

- if (argp->ftype == 0 || argp->ftype >= NF3BAD) {
- resp->status = nfserr_inval;
- goto out;
- }
if (argp->ftype == NF3CHR || argp->ftype == NF3BLK) {
rdev = MKDEV(argp->major, argp->minor);
if (MAJOR(rdev) != argp->major ||
@@ -328,7 +324,7 @@ nfsd3_proc_mknod(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
goto out;
}
} else if (argp->ftype != NF3SOCK && argp->ftype != NF3FIFO) {
- resp->status = nfserr_inval;
+ resp->status = nfserr_badtype;
goto out;
}