[PATCH v3 2/4] NFSD: Never return NFS4ERR_FILE_OPEN when removing a directory

cel
2025-01-26T21:50:26Z

RFC 8881 Section 18.25.4 paragraph 5 tells us that the server
should return NFS4ERR_FILE_OPEN only if the target object is an
opened file. This suggests that returning this status when removing
a directory will confuse NFS clients.

This is a version-specific issue; nfsd_proc_remove/rmdir() and
nfsd3_proc_remove/rmdir() already return nfserr_access as
appropriate.

Unfortunately there is no quick way for nfsd4_remove() to determine
whether the target object is a file or not, so the check is done in
in nfsd_unlink() for now.

Reported-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Fixes: 466e16f0920f ("nfsd: check for EBUSY from vfs_rmdir/vfs_unink.")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 2d8e27c225f9..6cd130b5c2b6 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1931,9 +1931,17 @@ nfsd_rename(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *ffhp, char *fname, int flen,
return err;
}

-/*
- * Unlink a file or directory
- * N.B. After this call fhp needs an fh_put
+/**
+ * nfsd_unlink - remove a directory entry
+ * @rqstp: RPC transaction context
+ * @fhp: the file handle of the parent directory to be modified
+ * @type: enforced file type of the object to be removed
+ * @fname: the name of directory entry to be removed
+ * @flen: length of @fname in octets
+ *
+ * After this call fhp needs an fh_put.
+ *
+ * Returns a generic NFS status code in network byte-order.
*/
__be32
nfsd_unlink(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, int type,
@@ -2007,10 +2015,14 @@ nfsd_unlink(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, int type,
fh_drop_write(fhp);
out_nfserr:
if (host_err == -EBUSY) {
- /* name is mounted-on. There is no perfect
- * error status.
+ /*
+ * See RFC 8881 Section 18.25.4 para 4: NFSv4 REMOVE
+ * wants a status unique to the object type.
*/
- err = nfserr_file_open;
+ if (type != S_IFDIR)
+ err = nfserr_file_open;
+ else
+ err = nfserr_acces;
}
out:
return err != nfs_ok ? err : nfserrno(host_err);
--
2.47.0