[LTP] [PATCH 6.1 00/15] 6.1.48-rc1 review

[Harshit Mogalapalli]

Hi,

On 25/08/23 12:35 pm, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> + linux-nfs and more
> 
> On Thu, 24 Aug 2023 at 19:45, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>>
>> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.1.48 release.
>> There are 15 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
>> to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
>> let me know.
>>
>> Responses should be made by Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:14:28 +0000.
>> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>>
>> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
>>          https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.1.48-rc1.gz
>> or in the git tree and branch at:
>>          git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.1.y
>> and the diffstat can be found below.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
> 
> 
> Following test regression found on stable-rc 6.1.
> Rpi4 is using NFS mount rootfs and running LTP syscalls testing.
> chown02 tests creating testfile2 on NFS mounted and validating
> the functionality and found that it was a failure.
> 
> This is already been reported by others on lore and fix patch merged
> into stable-rc linux-6.4.y [1] and [2].
> 
> Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
> 
> Test log:
> --------
> chown02.c:46: TPASS: chown(testfile1, 0, 0) passed
> chown02.c:46: TPASS: chown(testfile2, 0, 0) passed
> chown02.c:58: TFAIL: testfile2: wrong mode permissions 0100700, expected 0102700
> 
> fchown02.c:57: TPASS: fchown(3, 0, 0) passed
> fchown02.c:57: TPASS: fchown(4, 0, 0) passed
> fchown02.c:67: TFAIL: testfile2: wrong mode permissions 0100700,
> expected 0102700
> 

Note:
These both test cases are failing in 5.15.128 as well.

> 
> ## Build
> * kernel: 6.1.48-rc1
> * git: https://gitlab.com/Linaro/lkft/mirrors/stable/linux-stable-rc
> * git branch: linux-6.1.y
> * git commit: c079d0dd788ad4fe887ee6349fe89d23d72f7696
> * git describe: v6.1.47-16-gc079d0dd788a
> * test details:
> https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-stable-rc-linux-6.1.y/build/v6.1.47-16-gc079d0dd788a
> 
> ## Test Regressions (compared to v6.1.46)
> * bcm2711-rpi-4-b, ltp-syscalls
>    - chown02
>    - fchown02
> 
> * bcm2711-rpi-4-b-64k_page_size, ltp-syscalls
>    - chown02
>    - fchown02
> 
> * bcm2711-rpi-4-b-clang, ltp-syscalls
>    - chown02
>    - fchown02
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Do we need the following patch into stable-rc linux-6.1.y ?
> 
> I see from mailing thread discussion, says that
> 
> the above commit is backported to LTS kernels -- 5.10.y,5.15.y and 6.1.y.
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> nfsd: use vfs setgid helper
> commit 2d8ae8c417db284f598dffb178cc01e7db0f1821 upstream.
> 
> We've aligned setgid behavior over multiple kernel releases. The details
> can be found in commit cf619f891971 ("Merge tag 'fs.ovl.setgid.v6.2' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping") and
> commit 426b4ca2d6a5 ("Merge tag 'fs.setgid.v6.0' of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux").
> Consistent setgid stripping behavior is now encapsulated in the
> setattr_should_drop_sgid() helper which is used by all filesystems that
> strip setgid bits outside of vfs proper. Usually ATTR_KILL_SGID is
> raised in e.g., chown_common() and is subject to the
> setattr_should_drop_sgid() check to determine whether the setgid bit can
> be retained. Since nfsd is raising ATTR_KILL_SGID unconditionally it
> will cause notify_change() to strip it even if the caller had the
> necessary privileges to retain it. Ensure that nfsd only raises
> ATR_KILL_SGID if the caller lacks the necessary privileges to retain the
> setgid bit.
> 
> Without this patch the setgid stripping tests in LTP will fail:
> 
>> As you can see, the problem is S_ISGID (0002000) was dropped on a
>> non-group-executable file while chown was invoked by super-user, while
> 
> [...]
> 
>> fchown02.c:66: TFAIL: testfile2: wrong mode permissions 0100700, expected 0102700
> 
> [...]
> 
>> chown02.c:57: TFAIL: testfile2: wrong mode permissions 0100700, expected 0102700
> 
> With this patch all tests pass.
> 
> Reported-by: Sherry Yang <sherry.yang@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/20230502-agenda-regeln-04d2573bd0fd@brauner/
> [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/202210091600.dbe52cbf-yujie.liu@intel.com/
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