Bug 5653 - default ZFS/NFSv4 ACL is not correctly ordered to be used on Win
Summary: default ZFS/NFSv4 ACL is not correctly ordered to be used on Win
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: Samba 4.1 and newer
Classification: Unclassified
Component: File services (show other bugs)
Version: 4.14.0
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Samba QA Contact
QA Contact: Samba QA Contact
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Keywords:
: 5652 (view as bug list)
Depends on: 5652
Blocks:
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Reported: 2008-07-30 17:20 UTC by Jura Sasek
Modified: 2022-05-02 12:39 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Attachments
options added to zfsacl module controling the ordering of the ACEs (4.59 KB, patch)
2008-07-30 17:30 UTC, Jura Sasek
no flags Details
(f)chmod() acmm blocking on ZFS (3.15 KB, patch)
2009-03-26 15:43 UTC, Jura Sasek
no flags Details

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Description Jura Sasek 2008-07-30 17:20:50 UTC
please see the 5652
Comment 1 Jura Sasek 2008-07-30 17:30:04 UTC
Created attachment 3447 [details]
options added to zfsacl module controling the ordering of the ACEs

The following module options to the source/modules/vfs_zfsacl.c was added:
addressing prefix: "vfszfsacl:"
option name: "acesort"
settings: "dontcare", "ntfs" ("ntfs" is default)
effect: when the ZFS/NFSv4 ACL is converted into the NTFS ACL if "dontcare" is set it  leaving the ACEs in ACL as nor where "ntfs" is set conversion is placing the deny ACEs before the other ACE types in ACL and also does not placing the zero-mask ACEs into the NTFS ACL
Comment 2 Jens Elkner 2009-02-17 22:06:57 UTC
"ntfs ordering": BAD HACK - BAD IDEA - not required - see 5652
Comment 3 mchugh19@yahoo.com 2009-03-06 09:32:23 UTC
Is there any reason not to add this patch to samba? In testing viability of using zfs acls I'm now running into the ace ordering error messages and it is quite distracting for our users.
Comment 4 Volker Lendecke 2009-03-06 09:36:19 UTC
ACL reordering changes semantics. Samba should never change ACL semantics on the way from disk to client.

Volker
Comment 5 Jura Sasek 2009-03-06 18:59:58 UTC
does not ordering the "deny" ACEs fist can lead to serious security issue as discussed on #5652
Comment 6 Jura Sasek 2009-03-26 15:43:25 UTC
Created attachment 4014 [details]
(f)chmod() acmm blocking on ZFS

This patch adds blocking of the (f)chmod() calls on the ZFS. chmod() call is returning the siles on ZFS back under the POSIX control. It does mean the 6 special ACEs is added into the ACL making it unusable under Windows (NTFS does not require POSIX.

Possibility of sorting of the ACEs in ACL from the previous diff is left but its default behavior is turned to "dontcare". It can workaround the problem of the warning messages in Win Explorer on shares running on older zpool releases does not supporting the "aclmode=passthrough" property (zpools created on Solaris Nevada builds < 88 or Solaris 10 update 5 and below which can not be zpool-upgraded for some reasons).
Comment 7 Jura Sasek 2009-03-26 16:43:37 UTC
Attached diff was tested on Solaris Nevada b110 with samba-3.0.34 . Problem is fixed by the blocking of the (f)chmod() call on ZFS.
Comment 8 Jura Sasek 2009-04-09 09:43:32 UTC
ACL sorting can induce another problems. One for anothers is:

ZFS is adding the "everyone@:W::deny" rule into the ACL by default. So if such rule is reordered to take place before any "allow" rule without removing the "W"-flag manually all "Extended File Attributes" can not be write-accessed by "everyone@"  ...it means really by everyone even by file owner. If the samba (S)-option "ea support = yes" is set and smbd can not write the Extended File Attributes the DOS-attributes are written into the POSIX-mask instead (doing chmod()) in this case. chmod()-call will cause the POSIX-mask is transformed into the 6 special-ACEs added to the end of the ACL of the file.
...such nice case of the circular dependencies is called "perpetuum debile" in Czech nerd's slang   :-)

Bug is better to be closed and no one of the proposed attachments should rather be applied. Here is no programmatic way to automatize such task faultlessly.

Documentation issue should be raised instead. Users migrating to ZFS are usually surprised by the number of parameters to control to setup the samba share there and their effort can fail too simply.
Comment 9 Volker Lendecke 2009-04-09 13:24:03 UTC
Jiri, can you tell us how the in-kernel cifs does it?

Volker
Comment 10 Jura Sasek 2009-04-14 09:47:49 UTC
CIFS kernel is running above the "idmap" service. "idmap" is mapping the SIDs to ephemeral uid/gid-s (uid/gid > 2G). Such mapping is not permanent by default so the mapping tuples (A_OWNERSID, A_GROUPSID) are stored via the getattrat/setattrat (fgetattr(3C)) interface as XDR-encoded packed nvlists. i.e. the dirs and files can associated info in "Extended File Attributes":

-bash-3.2# runat /samba/homes/barbusin/ ls -l
total 2
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          84 Apr 10 18:57 SUNWattr_ro
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         408 Apr 10 18:57 SUNWattr_rw
-bash-3.2# runat /samba/homes/barbusin/hi.txt ls -l
total 3
-r--r--r--   1 root     root          84 Apr 14 12:47 SUNWattr_ro
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         408 Apr 14 12:47 SUNWattr_rw
-rw-rw----   1 SMBSETUP\barbucha SMBSETUP\domain users       4 Apr 14 12:47 user.DOSATTRIB


... SUNWattr_r? "Extended File Attributes" are storing such info. For better understand-ability I have listed the file created by samba having the "ea support = yes" set to see the "File Extended Attributes" set by samba (DOS-flags on file).

acl(2) interface can contain also info about the file owner is determined by the SID (see: ACL_SID_FMT -formating option in /usr/include/sys/acl.h) but this interface is evolving.
Comment 11 Volker Lendecke 2009-04-16 05:52:24 UTC
That's not what I really am interested in. How does the in-kernel CIFS solve the ACL ordering issue? :-)

Volker
Comment 12 Björn Jacke 2021-03-04 14:56:15 UTC
Jiri, can you tell how the cifs in-kernel server manages the NFS4 ACL ordering issue?
Comment 13 Jura Sasek 2021-03-05 14:31:36 UTC
Solaris SMB do not use NFSv4 ACLs but stores own NTFS ACLs (managed via SMB) into B-trees in Ext.Attrs. so each directory member has at least 2 files in Ext.Attrs.:

 # runat /usr/ 'ls -al'
total 4
drwxrwxrwt  4 root sys    4 Feb  3 23:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 root sys   50 Feb  3 23:24 ..
-r--r--r--  1 root root 156 Feb  3 23:24 SUNWattr_ro
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 508 Feb  3 23:24 SUNWattr_rw

where those structures are stored. I also tried to ask if there is interoperability with these ACLs (SMB, NFSv4) on files shared by both methods but I have already received answer for something else so I do not know such details.

Samba (as SMB server running in user-land) can re-share NFSv4 mount so exact implementation of the ACLs is relevant.
Comment 14 Björn Jacke 2021-03-10 18:35:38 UTC
*** Bug 5652 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 15 Björn Jacke 2021-03-10 18:42:53 UTC
reopening because this bug was closed only because Jiri attached a patch here. In Samba it's not fixed though. It's also a generic issue for other NF4 ACL supporting filesystems, most of them drop the NFS4 ACLs if a chmod() call is being done. We might want to add a generic nfs4:chmod = [yes|no] option (we have the generic nfs4:chown equivalent already).