[PATCH] NFS: Ensure we always update inode->i_mode when doing O_EXCL creates

When the client performs an exclusive create and opens the file for writing,
a Netapp filer will first create the file using the mode 01777. It does this
since an NFSv3/v4 exclusive create cannot immediately set the mode bits.
The 01777 mode then gets put into the inode->i_mode. After the file creation
is successful, we then do a setattr to change the mode to the correct value
(as per the NFS spec).

The problem is that nfs_refresh_inode() no longer updates inode->i_mode, so
the latter retains the 01777 mode. A bit later, the VFS notices this, and calls
remove_suid(). This of course now resets the file mode to inode->i_mode & 0777.
Hey presto, the file mode on the server is now magically changed to 0777. Duh...

Fixes http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
index 8ea249110fb0..7d78a783c64a 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
@@ -292,6 +292,7 @@ extern int nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *server, struct inode *inode);
 extern int __nfs_revalidate_inode(struct nfs_server *, struct inode *);
 extern void nfs_revalidate_mapping(struct inode *inode, struct address_space *mapping);
 extern int nfs_setattr(struct dentry *, struct iattr *);
+extern void nfs_setattr_update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct iattr *attr);
 extern void nfs_begin_attr_update(struct inode *);
 extern void nfs_end_attr_update(struct inode *);
 extern void nfs_begin_data_update(struct inode *);