From: Jan Koester <jan.koester@tuxist.de>
To: linkinjeon@kernel.org, smfrench@gmail.com
Cc: senozhatsky@chromium.org, tom@talpey.com,
chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com, brauner@kernel.org,
linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 6/6] Documentation: uid_r: describe ksmbd's SID mapping
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:02:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae30e40693d0f8b9f21a27e0@groupi3> (raw)
Name the SIDs ksmbd gives classic users and groups, and describe
KSMBD_EVENT_SID_MAP_REQUEST: what user space is asked, the caching and
what happens when it can't answer.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Jan Koester <jan.koester@tuxist.de>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst
index d16d4317f5..2e887c296d 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/uid_r.rst
@@ -167,7 +167,23 @@ SMB (ksmbd)
groups appear in security descriptors as
``S-1-22-<kind>-w0-w1-w2-w3``: kind 3 and 4 for a UUID user and group,
5 and 6 for a GUID user and group, w0 to w3 the 16 bytes of the id as
- big endian words.
+ big endian words; classic users as ``S-1-22-1-<uid>``, classic groups
+ as ``S-1-22-2-<gid>``.
+
+ A user space that sets ``KSMBD_GLOBAL_FLAG_SID_MAP`` at startup is
+ asked (``KSMBD_EVENT_SID_MAP_REQUEST``) for the Windows SID of every id
+ ksmbd shows as owner, group or ACL entry and for the id of every
+ domain SID (``S-1-5-21-...``) a client sets, also for accounts that
+ are not logged in. A mapped account appears with its own SID (e.g. a
+ directory's ``objectSid``), others keep the SIDs above. ksmbd caches
+ mappings for five minutes and "no mapping" for one; an answer user
+ space couldn't give is not cached: descriptors then show the SIDs
+ above, and setting an owner, group or ACL that needs a mapping fails
+ with ``STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS`` instead of being applied in part. A
+ domain SID that maps to no user (as owner) or group (as group) is
+ refused with ``STATUS_INVALID_OWNER`` or ``STATUS_INVALID_PRIMARY_GROUP``
+ rather than ignored. A session's user matches ACL entries naming its
+ own or its groups' SIDs, mapped or not.
NFSv4
Owners and ACL principals that are UUIDs or GUIDs travel as their text
--
2.56.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-10 9:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-10 9:02 Jan Koester [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-10-28 6:19 [RFC PATCH 0/6] ksmbd: Windows SIDs for user and group ids Jan Koester
2026-10-28 6:20 ` [RFC PATCH 6/6] Documentation: uid_r: describe ksmbd's SID mapping Jan Koester
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=ae30e40693d0f8b9f21a27e0@groupi3 \
--to=jan.koester@tuxist.de \
--cc=brauner@kernel.org \
--cc=chenxiaosong@chenxiaosong.com \
--cc=linkinjeon@kernel.org \
--cc=linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=samba-technical@lists.samba.org \
--cc=senozhatsky@chromium.org \
--cc=smfrench@gmail.com \
--cc=tom@talpey.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®