Re: [GIT PULL] nfsd changes for 5.18

[Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com>]

> On Jul 11, 2022, at 2:19 PM, Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 06:33:04AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 16:42 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
>>>> This patch regressed clients that support TIME_CREATE attribute.
>>>> Starting with this patch client might think that server supports
>>>> TIME_CREATE and start sending this attribute in its requests.
>>> 
>>> Indeed, e377a3e698fb ("nfsd: Add support for the birth time
>>> attribute") does not include a change to nfsd4_decode_fattr4()
>>> that decodes the birth time attribute.
>>> 
>>> I don't immediately see another storage protocol stack in our
>>> kernel that supports a client setting the birth time, so NFSD
>>> might have to ignore the client-provided value.
>>> 
>> 
>> Cephfs allows this. My thinking at the time that I implemented it was
>> that it should be settable for backup purposes, but this was possibly a
>> mistake. On most filesystems, the btime seems to be equivalent to inode
>> creation time and is read-only.
> 
> So supporting it as read-only seems reasonable.
> 
> Clearly, failing to decode the setattr attempt isn't the right way to do
> that.  I'm not sure what exactly it should be doing--some kind of
> permission error on any setattr containing TIME_CREATE?

I don't think that will work.

NFSD now asserts FATTR4_WORD1_TIME_CREATE when clients ask for
the mask of attributes it supports. That means the server has
to process GETATTR and SETATTR (and OPEN) operations that
contain FATTR4_WORD1_TIME_CREATE as not an error. The protocol
allows the server to indicate it ignored the time_create value
by clearing the FATTR4_WORD1_TIME_CREATE bit in the attribute
bitmask it returns in the reply.


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Chuck Lever