hirofumi at mail
May 30, 2008, 12:06 PM
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Re: Rsync cannot copy to a vfat partition on kernel 2.6.25
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Dave Jones <davej[at]redhat.com> writes:
> We had a user report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449080
> that in 2.6.25, he can no longer rsync to a vfat partition, even as root.
> I just reproduced this here. It gets -EPERM in the mkstemp call.
> (full strace in the bug report).
>
> Did we change behaviour somehow in the vfat code?
> 2.6.24.7 works fine apparently.
Yes, it was changed. New one allows only acceptable chmod(), and if not
acceptable, it returns -EPERM. Old one allows even if it can't store the
disk inode. But it may be too strict for users.
Umm.. anyway, the following patch (still untested) will relax the check...
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi[at]mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi[at]mail.parknet.co.jp>
---
fs/fat/file.c | 25 ++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/fat/file.c~fat_setattr-fix fs/fat/file.c
--- linux-2.6/fs/fat/file.c~fat_setattr-fix 2008-05-31 03:49:09.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6-hirofumi/fs/fat/file.c 2008-05-31 04:03:45.000000000 +0900
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ static int fat_check_mode(const struct m
{
mode_t mask, req = mode & ~S_IFMT;
- if (S_ISREG(mode))
+ if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
mask = sbi->options.fs_fmask;
else
mask = sbi->options.fs_dmask;
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ int fat_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, s
{
struct msdos_sb_info *sbi = MSDOS_SB(dentry->d_sb);
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- int mask, error = 0;
+ int error = 0;
unsigned int ia_valid;
lock_kernel();
@@ -332,12 +332,13 @@ int fat_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, s
error = 0;
goto out;
}
+
if (((attr->ia_valid & ATTR_UID) &&
(attr->ia_uid != sbi->options.fs_uid)) ||
((attr->ia_valid & ATTR_GID) &&
(attr->ia_gid != sbi->options.fs_gid)) ||
((attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) &&
- fat_check_mode(sbi, inode, attr->ia_mode) < 0))
+ (attr->ia_mode & ~MSDOS_VALID_MODE)))
error = -EPERM;
if (error) {
@@ -346,15 +347,17 @@ int fat_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, s
goto out;
}
- error = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
- if (error)
- goto out;
+ /*
+ * If we can't store to storage, don't set this permission.
+ * We don't return -EPERM here. Yes, strange, but this is too
+ * old behavior.
+ */
+ if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
+ if (fat_check_mode(sbi, inode, attr->ia_mode) < 0)
+ attr->ia_mode &= ~ATTR_MODE;
+ }
- if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
- mask = sbi->options.fs_dmask;
- else
- mask = sbi->options.fs_fmask;
- inode->i_mode &= S_IFMT | (S_IRWXUGO & ~mask);
+ error = inode_setattr(inode, attr);
out:
unlock_kernel();
return error;
_
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