[linux-cifs-client] mkdir -p problem

[Pavel Shilovsky]

Hello!

I have such a situation.

I mount samba share with uid options and try to exec mkdir command. I have 
that cifs driver don't set uid during the one second - that's why i have a 
problem with creating hierarchy of directories. Cifs creates the first 
directory and when it try to create the second in it gets permission denied 
because driver don't set uid that I chose during mounting.

I looked on the code and found such an interesting thing:
when driver create directory, it calls posix_fill_in_inode() function that 
calls cifs_unix_info_to_inode() with force_uid_gid = 1 - driver don't set 
mnt_uid and mnt_gid after creating even if they were chosen.

That's why when I tried to "mkdir -p 1/2/3" in root share directory it failed.

I patched it with:

diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 9c548f1..e02de2b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ static void posix_fill_in_inode(struct inode *tmp_inode,
        local_mtime = tmp_inode->i_mtime;
        local_size  = tmp_inode->i_size;

-       cifs_unix_info_to_inode(tmp_inode, pData, 1);
+       cifs_unix_info_to_inode(tmp_inode, pData, 0);
        cifs_set_ops(tmp_inode, false);

        if (!S_ISREG(tmp_inode->i_mode))

and mkdir -p worked successful. Is it a bug or there are some other reason to 
do this?

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Best regards,
Pavel Shilovsky.