Re: [PATCH 2/6] Don't assume UID 0 attach

[asmadeus@codewreck.org]

Eric Van Hensbergen wrote on Sat, Dec 17, 2022 at 06:52:06PM +0000:
> The writeback_fid fallback code assumes a root uid fallback which
> breaks many server configurations (which don't run as root).  This
> patch switches to generic lookup which will follow argument
> guidence on access modes and default ids to use on failure.

Unfortunately this one will break writes to a file created as 400 I
think
That's the main reason we have this writeback fid afaik -- there are
cases where the user should be able to write to the file, but a plain
open/write won't work... I can't think of anything else than open 400
right now though

I'm sure there's an xfs_io command and xfstest for that, but for now:
python3 -c 'import os; f = os.open("testfile", os.O_CREAT + os.O_RDWR, 0o400); os.write(f, b"ok\n")'

iirc ganesha running as non-root just ignores root requests and opens as
current user-- this won't work for this particular case, but might be
good enough for you... With that said:

> There is a deeper underlying problem with writeback_fids in that
> this fallback is too standard and not an exception due to the way
> writeback mode works in the current implementation.  Subsequent
> patches will try to associate writeback fids from the original user
> either by flushing on close or by holding onto fid until writeback
> completes.

If we can address this problem though I agree we should stop using
wrieback fids as much as we do.
Now fids are refcounted, I think we could just use the normal fid as
writeback fid (getting a ref), and the regular close will not clunk it
so delayed IOs will pass.

Worth a try?
-- 
Dominique