Since commit ec88f28d in 2009, checking if the user-specified flavor
is in the server's flavor list has been the source of a few
noticeable regressions (now fixed), but there is one that is still
vexing.
An NFS server can list AUTH_NULL in its flavor list, which suggests
a client should try to mount the server with the flavor of the
client's choice, but the server will squash all accesses. In some
cases, our client fails to mount a server because of this check,
when the mount could have proceeded successfully.
Skip this check if the user has specified "sec=" on the mount
command line. But do consult the server-provided flavor list to
choose a security flavor if no sec= option is specified on the mount
command.
If a server lists Kerberos pseudoflavors before "sys" in its export
options, our client now chooses Kerberos over AUTH_UNIX for mount
points, when no security flavor is specified by the mount command.
This could be surprising to some administrators or users, who would
then need to have Kerberos credentials to access the export.
Or, a client administrator may not have enabled rpc.gssd. In this
case, auth_rpcgss.ko might still be loadable, which is enough for
the new logic to choose Kerberos over AUTH_UNIX. But the mount
would fail since no GSS context can be created without rpc.gssd
running.
To retain the use of AUTH_UNIX by default:
o The server administrator can ensure that "sys" is listed before
Kerberos flavors in its export security options (see
exports(5)),
o The client administrator can explicitly specify "sec=sys" on
its mount command line (see nfs(5)),
o The client administrator can use "Sec=sys" in an appropriate
section of /etc/nfsmount.conf (see nfsmount.conf(5)), or
o The client administrator can blacklist auth_rpcgss.ko.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause
server# mkdir a
client# cd a
server# mv a a.bak
client# sleep 30 # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
client# stat .
stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle
Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.
nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.
The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.
Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.
[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Some systems have a modprobe.d/nfs.conf file that sets an nfs4 alias
pointing to nfs.ko, rather than nfs4.ko. This can prevent the v4 module
from loading on mount, since the kernel sees that something named "nfs4"
has already been loaded. To work around this, I've renamed the modules
to "nfsv2.ko" "nfsv3.ko" and "nfsv4.ko".
I also had to move the nfs4_fs_type back to nfs.ko to ensure that `mount
-t nfs4` still works.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch exports symbols needed by the v4 module. In addition, I also
switch over to using IS_ENABLED() to check if CONFIG_NFS_V4 or
CONFIG_NFS_V4_MODULE are set.
The module (nfs4.ko) will be created in the same directory as nfs.ko and
will be automatically loaded the first time you try to mount over NFS v4.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Somehow I missed this in my previous patch series, but these functions
are only needed by the v4 code and should be moved to a v4-only file. I
wasn't exactly sure where I should put these functions, so I moved them
into nfs4super.c where I could make them static.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I can set all variables in the nfs_fill_super() function, allowing me to
remove the nfs4_fill_super() function.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
v2 and v4 don't use it, so I create two new nfs_rpc_ops functions to
initialize the ACL client only when we are using v3.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I'm already looking up the nfs subversion in nfs_fs_mount(), so I have
easy access to rpc_ops that used to be difficult to reach. This allows
me to set up a different mount path for NFS v2/3 and NFS v4.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I can now share this code with the v2 and v3 code by using the NFS
subversion structure.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch adds in the code to track multiple versions of the NFS
protocol. I created default structures for v2, v3 and v4 so that each
version can continue to work while I convert them into kernel modules.
I also removed the const parameter from the rpc_version array so that I
can change it at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
... yet. Right now, init_nfs() is calling this function if an error is
encountered when loading the nfs module. An __exit function can't be
called from one declared as __init.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This allows me to move the v4 mounting and unmounting functions out of
the generic client and into a file that is only compiled when CONFIG_NFS_V4
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
And split them out of the generic client into their own file.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I want to initialize all of NFS v4 in a single function that will
eventually be used as the v4 module init function.
Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Chuck Lever