Re: Phantom ACL-related xattrs on 3.14.4 NFS client

From: Philippe Troin
Date: Mon Jun 09 2014 - 12:06:08 EST


On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 10:46 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 07:48:21PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
> > Hi Trond & Christoph,
> >
> > It's still broken, but in a different way.
> > The phantom attrs are gone, but the attr/acl interaction is still
> > uncertain.
> >
> > I have tested vanilla 3.14.5 + this patch on x86_64.
> > Mount options are the same as last time (NFSv3).
> >
> > This is what I see on the client:
> >
> > nfsv3client% mkdir x
> > nfsv3client% cd x
> > nfsv3client% getfattr -m '.*' .
> > nfsv3client% getfacl .
> > # file: .
> > # owner: phil
> > # group: phil
> > user::rwx
> > group::rwx
> > other::r-x
> >
> > OK so far: no more phantom attrs.
> > This is where things get dodgy:
> >
> > nfsv3client% setfacl -m u:root:r .
> > nfsv3client% getfacl .
> > # file: .
> > # owner: phil
> > # group: phil
> > user::rwx
> > user:root:r--
> > group::rwx
> > mask::rwx
> > other::r-x
> >
> > nfsv3client% getfattr -m '.*' .
> > [1] 2123 segmentation fault getfattr -m '.*' .
>
> Is there a backtrace or anything in the system logs?

No, nothing but the SIGSEGV getting logged in dmesg.

Since I've tested on 3.14.5, 3.14.6 came out, and contains NFSd related
patches that look to address further ACL issues. I'm going to be trying
that out.

Phil.

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