Re: [nfs-utils PATCH] mountd: Enable all auth flavors on pseudofs exports

[Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>]

Hello

There is a typo below... 

On 03/31/2015 04:48 PM, Scott Mayhew wrote:
> With the current mountd code it's possible to craft exports in such a
> manner that clients will be unable to mount exports that they *should*
> be able to mount.
> 
> Consider the following example:
> 
> /foo	*(rw,insecure,no_root_squash,sec=krb5p)
> /bar	client.example.com(rw,insecure,no_root_squash)
> 
> Initially, client.example.com will be able to mount the /foo export
> using sec=krb5p, but attempts to mount /bar using sec=sys will return
> EPERM.  Once the nfsd.export cache entry expires, client.example.com
> will then be able to mount /bar using sec=sys but attempts to mount /foo
> using sec=krb5p will return EPERM.
> 
> The reason this happens is because the initial nfsd.export cache entry
> is actually pre-populated by nfsd_fh(), which is the handler for the
> nfsd.fh cache, while later cache requests (once the initial entry
> expires) are handled by nfsd_export().  These functions have slightly
> different logic in how they select a v4root export from the cache --
> nfsd_fh() takes last matching v4root export it finds, while
> nfsd_export() (actually lookup_export()) takes the first.  Either way
> it's wrong because the client should be able to mount both exports.
> 
> Both rfc3503bis and rfc5661 say:
> 
>    A common and convenient practice, unless strong security requirements
>    dictate otherwise, is to make the entire pseudo file system
>    accessible by all of the valid security mechanisms.
> 
> ...so lets do that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
> ---
>  utils/mountd/v4root.c | 19 ++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/utils/mountd/v4root.c b/utils/mountd/v4root.c
> index 34d098a..0f60efc 100644
> --- a/utils/mountd/v4root.c
> +++ b/utils/mountd/v4root.c
> @@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
>  #include "nfslib.h"
>  #include "misc.h"
>  #include "v4root.h"
> +#include "pseudoflavors.h"
>  
>  int v4root_needed;
>  
> @@ -56,22 +57,22 @@ static nfs_export pseudo_root = {
>  };
>  
>  static void
> -set_pseudofs_security(struct exportent *pseudo, struct exportent *source)
> +set_pseudofs_security(struct exportent *pseudo, int flags)
>  {
> -	struct sec_entry *se;
> +	struct flav_info *flav;
>  	int i;
>  
> -	if (source->e_flags & NFSEXP_INSECURE_PORT)
> +	if (flags & NFSEXP_INSECURE_PORT)
>  		pseudo->e_flags |= NFSEXP_INSECURE_PORT;
> -	if ((source->e_flags & NFSEXP_ROOTSQUASH) == 0)
> +	if ((flags & NFSEXP_ROOTSQUASH) == 0)
>  		pseudo->e_flags &= ~NFSEXP_ROOTSQUASH;
> -	for (se = source->e_secinfo; se->flav; se++) {
> +	for (flav = flav_map; flav < flav_map + flav_map_size; flav++) {
>  		struct sec_entry *new;
>  
> -		i = secinfo_addflavor(se->flav, pseudo);
> +		i = secinfo_addflavor(flav, pseudo);
>  		new = &pseudo->e_secinfo[i];
>  
> -		if (se->flags & NFSEXP_INSECURE_PORT)
> +		if (flags & NFSEXP_INSECURE_PORT)
>  			new->flags |= NFSEXP_INSECURE_PORT;
>  	}
>  }
> @@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ v4root_create(char *path, nfs_export *export)
>  	strncpy(eep.e_path, path, sizeof(eep.e_path));
>  	if (strcmp(path, "/") != 0)
>  		eep.e_flags &= ~NFSEXP_FSID;
> -	set_pseudofs_security(&eep, curexp);
> +	set_pseudofs_security(&eep, curexp->e_flags);
>  	exp = export_create(&eep, 0);
>  	if (exp == NULL)
>  		return NULL;
> @@ -139,7 +140,7 @@ pseudofs_update(char *hostname, char *path, nfs_export *source)
>  		return 0;
>  	}
>  	/* Update an existing V4ROOT export: */
> -	set_pseudofs_security(&exp->m_export, &source->m_export);
> +	set_pseudofs_security(&exp->m_export, &source->m_export.e_flags);
should be source->m_export.e_flags not  &source->m_export.e_flags

I fixed then committed the patch... 

steved.

>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
>