From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [PATCH] Inconsistent setattr behaviour Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:52:55 -0800 Message-ID: <1235407975.7598.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <49A2CD2B.50607@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org To: "Sachin S. Prabhu" Return-path: Received: from mail-out2.uio.no ([129.240.10.58]:40415 "EHLO mail-out2.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753109AbZBWQxD (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:53:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49A2CD2B.50607@redhat.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 16:22 +0000, Sachin S. Prabhu wrote: > There is an inconsistency seen in the behaviour of nfs compared to other local > filesystems on linux when changing owner or group of a directory. If the > directory has SUID/SGID flags set, on changing owner or group on the directory, > the flags are stripped off on nfs. These flags are maintained on other > filesystems such as ext3. > > To reproduce on a nfs share or local filesystem, run the following commands > mkdir test; chmod +s+g test; chown user1 test; ls -ld test > > On the nfs share, the flags are stripped and the output seen is > drwxr-xr-x 2 user1 root 4096 Feb 23 2009 test > > On other local filesystems(ex: ext3), the flags are not stripped and the output > seen is > drwsr-sr-x 2 user1 root 4096 Feb 23 13:57 test > > chown_common() called from sys_chown() will only strip the flags if the inode is > not a directory. > static int chown_common(struct dentry * dentry, uid_t user, gid_t group) > { > .. > if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) > newattrs.ia_valid |= > ATTR_KILL_SUID | ATTR_KILL_SGID | ATTR_KILL_PRIV; > .. > } > > See: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xsh/chown.html > > "If the path argument refers to a regular file, the set-user-ID (S_ISUID) and > set-group-ID (S_ISGID) bits of the file mode are cleared upon successful return > from chown(), unless the call is made by a process with appropriate privileges, > in which case it is implementation-dependent whether these bits are altered. If > chown() is successfully invoked on a file that is not a regular file, these > bits may be cleared. These bits are defined in ." > > The behaviour as it stands does not appear to violate POSIX. However the > actions performed are inconsistent when comparing ext3 and nfs. Does this patch retain the behaviour that we strip suid/sgid bits on executable files? IOW: Is the following property retained root@heimdal:~# touch /tmp/gnurr; chmod a+x,+s+g /tmp/gnurr; chown bin /tmp/gnurr root@heimdal:~# ls -l /tmp/gnurr -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin root 0 2009-02-23 08:49 /tmp/gnurr Trond