[Bug 214041] Re: NFS mounting hangs instead of returning with permission denied

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On 2008-03-31T15:00:10+00:00 Eric wrote:

mount server:/export /import/ -o
context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0,fscontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0

With selinux enforcing this will give you an selinux denial and the actual mount
syscall returns -EACCES.  mount.nfs sleeps (increasingly longer up to 10
seconds) and keeps retrying.  One permission denied should be enough to cause
mount.nfs to give up.

A bit of an strace is below:
2262  mount("paris.rdu.redhat.com:/export/storage", "/storage", "nfs"..., 0,
"context=\"system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0\",fscontext=\"system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0\",addr=10.11.231.241"...)
= -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
2262  gettimeofday({1206974842, 167191}, NULL) = 0
2262  rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
2262  rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
2262  rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
2262  nanosleep({1, 0}, {1, 0})         = 0
2262  mount("paris.rdu.redhat.com:/export/storage", "/storage", "nfs"..., 0,
"context=\"system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0\",fscontext=\"system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0\",addr=10.11.231.241"...)
= -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
2262  gettimeofday({1206974843, 206725}, NULL) = 0
2262  rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
2262  rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
2262  rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
2262  nanosleep({2, 0}, {2, 0})         = 0
2262  mount("paris.rdu.redhat.com:/export/storage", "/storage", "nfs"..., 0,
"context=\"system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0\",fscontext=\"system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0\",addr=10.11.231.241"...)
= -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

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On 2008-03-31T15:05:49+00:00 Eric wrote:

Correction, after 2 minutes of retrying it will give up.  Until recently this
will going up immediately.

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On 2008-03-31T15:08:07+00:00 Eric wrote:

I speak engrish goodly.

"Until recently this would give up immediately"

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On 2008-03-31T15:13:56+00:00 Jeff wrote:

Created attachment 299729
patch (untested)

This patch should fix it...

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On 2008-03-31T15:31:28+00:00 Eric wrote:

The patch works.  With it I get:

[root at dhcp231-25 ~]# mount paris.rdu.redhat.com:/export/storage /storage/ -o
context=system_u:object_r:httpd_sys_content_t:s0,fscontext=system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0
mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting
paris.rdu.redhat.com:/export/storage

Which is not technically true.  The server didn't deny my, the local selinux
policy denied me.  But I'm happy with it anyway....

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On 2008-03-31T22:34:57+00:00 Steve wrote:

So why was SELunix denying the mount?

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On 2008-04-01T01:28:14+00:00 Eric wrote:

In this particular case its because i told it to do something bogus with the
mount options.  The SELinux denial from the above line is expected and was
encountered when I was working on doing so SELinux/NFS testing for other
purposes.  Historically mount.nfs would kick it back at me instantly but not any
more.  This is not by any means common, a much more reasonable failure scenario
(and one that happened under binary mount options) would be:

mount server:/export /import -o context=system_u:object_r:httpd_t:s0

This is invalid but not nearly as strange and contrived as my previous mount
command and the user should get EACCES, but instead, after 2 minutes they get:

mount.nfs: Connection timed out

which does tell the real problem.  Even if we let it retry on EACCES for 2
minutes it needs to fail with EACCES.  If it pretends it was a timeout problem
it will send the user looking at non permission related problems...

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On 2008-04-15T11:23:14+00:00 Steve wrote:

Fixed in nfs-utils-1.1.2-2

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On 2008-05-14T08:28:29+00:00 Bug wrote:

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

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On 2009-06-09T23:56:54+00:00 Bug wrote:


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On 2009-07-15T08:19:47+00:00 Bug wrote:


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Title:
  NFS mounting hangs instead of returning with permission denied

Status in nfs-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nfs-utils source package in Hardy:
  Fix Released
Status in nfs-utils source package in Intrepid:
  Fix Released
Status in Debian:
  Fix Released
Status in Fedora:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: nfs-common

  Hardy does not properly return Permission denied correctly when
  attempting to mount NFS shares that are denied.  Instead it hangs for
  2 minutes as if the error was a connection timeout.

  This error is hardy specific as gutsy properly returned Permission
  denied.  Following, you will find output from two different machines:
  one running Hardy 8.04, the other running Gutsy 7.10.  Both are
  attempting to mount the very same NFS share on a Solaris 10 server.
  Neither machine actually has permission to mount this share.  Both
  machines *can* mount shares they do have permission for on the same
  server.

  This is critical as it severely impacts the usefulness of autofs.

  ------------ Hardy test case ------------------
  $ cat /etc/*-release
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"

  $ uname -a
  Linux fungus 2.6.24-15-generic #1 SMP Fri Apr 4 03:48:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

  $ dpkg -l | grep nfs-common
  ii  nfs-common                                 1:1.1.2-2ubuntu2                                   NFS support files common to client and serve

  $ time sudo mount.nfs platinum:/zpool1/vmware tmp
  mount.nfs: Connection timed out

  real	2m5.071s
  user	0m0.000s
  sys	0m0.004s

  
  ----------------------- Gutsy test case -------------------------
  $ cat /etc/*-release
  DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
  DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
  DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
  DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"

  $ uname -a
  Linux campaigndialer 2.6.22-14-server #1 SMP Tue Dec 18 08:31:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

  $ dpkg -l | grep nfs-common
  ii  nfs-common                            1:1.1.1~git-20070709-3ubuntu1 NFS support files common to client and serve

  $ time sudo mount.nfs platinum:/zpool1/vmware tmp
  mount.nfs: platinum:/zpool1/vmware failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

  real	0m0.016s
  user	0m0.000s
  sys	0m0.010s

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