[Virtio-fs] virtiofs doesn't accept writable group permissions

[German Maglione]

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 8:35 PM stefanx <stefanx at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>
> Hello German,
>
> Am 04.04.23 um 18:06 schrieb German Maglione:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 3:58 PM stefanx <stefanx at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> virtiofs doesn't accept writable group permissions (Libvirt/KVM, guest vm and host vm have Ubuntu 22.04):
> >>
> >> Libvirt XML (host vm):
> >>
> >>     <filesystem type='mount' accessmode='passthrough'>
> >>       <driver type='virtiofs'/>
> >>       <source dir='/mnt/xyz'/>
> >>       <target dir='mnt-xyz'/>
> >>       <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x08' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
> >>     </filesystem>
> >>
> >> /etc/fstab (guest vm):
> >> ```
> >> mnt-xyz       /mnt/xyz            virtiofs rw,_netdev 0 0
> >> ```
> >> In /mnt/xyz/123 I have write permissions at host vm, but not at guest vm. host vm and guest vm have the same LDAP users.
> > when you say that you do not have write permission, do you mean that
> > when you try to write, it fails?
> Now I have made more tests: The user has write permissions to existing files, but cannot create new files on the guest (it's possible on the host)
> > Could you send the output of:
> > 'ls -lnd /mnt/xyz/123'
> > (both in the host and the guest)
> >
> > and also the output of 'id' in the guest (with the user you are trying to write)
>
> ls -lnd /mnt/xyz/123
> -rw-r--r-- 1 16009 16100 0 Apr  4 19:32 /mnt/xyz/123

Sorry, I'm a bit confused, I thought "123" was a directory not a regular file.
So, I'm assuming the owner (in the host) of if /mnt/xyz is not 16009, but the
group is 16100 with write permission, that is a supplementary group of the
user 16009, something like:

drwxrwxr-x 1 0 16100 0 Apr 4 19:32 /mnt/xyz
(I'm just using uid 0 as an example)
is that correct?

> id 16009 gid=16000, groups=...,16100(...),...
>
>
> We use /mnt/xyz for years in the host without any permission problems, all attributes and permissions for all directories and files in /mnt/xyz/123 are exactly the same on host and guest.
>

Which version of virtiofsd are you using?
Is "xyz" a mount point for (or is inside a)  nfs/cephfs?


>
> Stefan
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >> Any ideas ?
> >>
> >> Thanks Stefan
> >>
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> > --
> > German
> >
>


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