From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E48C3B187 for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99EE52465D for ; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728603AbgBLU13 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:27:29 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:43568 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727548AbgBLU13 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:27:29 -0500 Received: from viro by ZenIV.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1j1ybU-00BaBo-1z; Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:27:24 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 20:27:24 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Rich Felker Cc: Andreas Schwab , Florian Weimer , "Darrick J. Wong" , Christoph Hellwig , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: XFS reports lchmod failure, but changes file system contents Message-ID: <20200212202724.GP23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <874kvwowke.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20200212161604.GP6870@magnolia> <20200212181128.GA31394@infradead.org> <20200212183718.GQ6870@magnolia> <87d0ajmxc3.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20200212195118.GN23230@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87wo8rlgml.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87wo8r1rx6.fsf@igel.home> <20200212201951.GC1663@brightrain.aerifal.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200212201951.GC1663@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 03:19:51PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 09:17:41PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > On Feb 12 2020, Florian Weimer wrote: > > > > > * Al Viro: > > > > > >> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 08:15:08PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > >> > > >>> | Further, I've found some inconsistent behavior with ext4: chmod on the > > >>> | magic symlink fails with EOPNOTSUPP as in Florian's test, but fchmod > > >>> | on the O_PATH fd succeeds and changes the symlink mode. This is with > > >>> | 5.4. Cany anyone else confirm this? Is it a problem? > > >>> > > >>> It looks broken to me because fchmod (as an inode-changing operation) > > >>> is not supposed to work on O_PATH descriptors. > > >> > > >> Why? O_PATH does have an associated inode just fine; where does > > >> that "not supposed to" come from? > > > > > > It fails on most file systems right now. I thought that was expected. > > > Other system calls (fsetxattr IIRC) do not work on O_PATH descriptors, > > > either. I assumed that an O_PATH descriptor was not intending to > > > confer that capability. Even openat fails. > > > > According to open(2), this is expected: > > > > O_PATH (since Linux 2.6.39) > > Obtain a file descriptor that can be used for two purposes: to > > indicate a location in the filesystem tree and to perform opera- > > tions that act purely at the file descriptor level. The file > > itself is not opened, and other file operations (e.g., read(2), > > write(2), fchmod(2), fchown(2), fgetxattr(2), ioctl(2), mmap(2)) > > fail with the error EBADF. > > That text is outdated and should be corrected. Fixing fchmod fchown, > fstat, etc. to operate on O_PATH file descriptors was a very > intentional change in the kernel. Wait. First of all, in the testcase it's chmod(2) applied to /proc/*/fd/*; that's no different for O_PATH descriptors. Location in the tree *is* associated with O_PATH fd; that's the only thing they exist for. fchmod(2) will certainly fail for those, as it always had: int ksys_fchmod(unsigned int fd, umode_t mode) { struct fd f = fdget(fd); int err = -EBADF; if (f.file) { audit_file(f.file); err = chmod_common(&f.file->f_path, mode); fdput(f); } return err; } SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fchmod, unsigned int, fd, umode_t, mode) { return ksys_fchmod(fd, mode); } ... and that fdget() will give you -EBADF. If you've managed to get fchmod(2) the syscall to give you anything other than that, I want to see details.