Re: [PATCH -next 2/2] NFSv4: fix open failure with O_ACCMODE flag

[Trond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>]

On Tue, 2022-03-29 at 21:44 +0800, chenxiaosong (A) wrote:
> 在 2022/3/29 21:05, Trond Myklebust 写道:
> > No. This will not fit the definition of open(2) in the manpage.
> > 
> >         Linux reserves the special, nonstandard access mode 3 
> > (binary  11)  in
> >         flags  to mean: check for read and write permission on the
> > file and re‐
> >         turn a file descriptor that can't be used for reading or
> > writing.  This
> >         nonstandard  access mode is used by some Linux drivers to
> > return a file
> >         descriptor that is to be used only for device-specific
> > ioctl(2)  opera‐
> >         tions.
>  > Your patch will now cause FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE to be set on
> the
>  > file, allowing the file descriptor to be usable for I/O.
> 
> Reproducer:
> ```
>    1. mount -t nfs -o vers=4.2 $server_ip:/ /mnt/
>    2. fd = open("/mnt/file", O_ACCMODE|O_DIRECT|O_CREAT) = 3
>    3. close(fd)
>    4. fd = open("/mnt/file", O_ACCMODE|O_DIRECT) = -1
> ```
> 
> When firstly open with O_ACCMODE|O_DIRECT flags:
> ```c
>    path_openat
>      open_last_lookups
>        lookup_open
>          atomic_open
>            nfs_atomic_open
>              create_nfs_open_context
>                f_mode = flags_to_mode
>                alloc_nfs_open_context(..., f_mode, ...)
>                  ctx->mode = f_mode // FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE
> ```
> 
> When secondly open with O_ACCMODE|O_DIRECT flags:
> ```c
>    path_openat
>      do_open
>        vfs_open
>          do_dentry_open
>            nfs4_file_open
>              f_mode = filp->f_mode | flags_to_mode(openflags)
>              alloc_nfs_open_context(..., f_mode, ...)
>                ctx->mode = f_mode // FMODE_READ|FMODE_WRITE
> ```
> 
> Before merging this patch, when firstly open, we does not set
> FMODE_READ 
> and FMODE_WRITE to file mode of client, FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE
> just 
> be set to context mode.
> 
> After merging this patch, when secondly open, I just do the same
> thing, 
> file mode of client will not have FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE bits,
> file 
> descriptor can't be used for reading or writing.

I see. OK, I'll probably not apply this for the merge window (since I'm
pretty much queued up to send the pull request at this point), but it
might go in as a bug fix in rc1.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com