Bug 374231

Summary: NFS shares broken
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ryan Helinski <rlhelinski>
Component: nfs-utilsAssignee: Steve Dickson <steved>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 7CC: dwalsh, eparis, sdsmall, trevor, triage
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Description Ryan Helinski 2007-11-10 02:50:46 UTC
Description of problem:
Recent upgrade has broken client-side NFS mount. There is one NFS share with
multiple exported subdirectories (/nfs). The top-level share works fine, but
some of the subdirectories which are all explicitly listed in the server
'/etc/exports' file fail. Trying to CD or LS results in: 
ls: cannot access /nfs/home: Invalid argument

The only log file which seems to produce an error during this event is 'dmesg':
SELinux: security_context_to_sid(****) failed for (dev 0:12, type nfs) errno=-22

Where **** is about 10 non-standard ASCII characters looking like symbols and
question marks. The length of this string seems to vary. 

Upgrading today to the latest version of 'nfs-utils' and kernel seems to allow
one out of four of my shares to work correctly, the 'rw' one (/nfs/tmp).

Please let me know what other information I can provide. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux 2.6.23.1-21.fc7
nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.1.0-4.fc7

How reproducible:
Not sure if it's configuration or what--it was working until now. My
configuration is based on the 'fedorasolved.org' NFS tutorial.

Comment 1 Trevor Cordes 2007-11-24 13:30:58 UTC
Try turning "off" selinux (targeted/permissive).  If that fixes it, obviously
it's a selinux issue and some selinux tweaking will be required.  See the many
other selinux and nfs bugs here.

Are you running NFSv3 or v4 for this client?  If v4, make sure you're exporting
dirs that all share the same dir root (fsid=0).  The setup can be tricky.


Comment 2 Steve Dickson 2007-11-26 13:03:34 UTC
Dan, does this look familiar? 

Comment 3 Ryan Helinski 2007-11-26 13:15:00 UTC
I did not notice any SELinux alerts from the troubleshooter that appeared when I
was having this problem (this machine has since moved off the network). There
was just the 'security_context_to_sid(****)'. The random garbage in the alert
string just sounded like a bug to me. 

It is NFSv4. I was exporting DIRS with the same root dir (fsid=0), although some
of them were 'bind's of other directories. I still have other machines FC6 and
FC7 on that network, and they seem fine. 

Should I close this bug since I'm no longer able to mount the server (which
works) with the workstation machine (which has the problem)?

Comment 4 Daniel Walsh 2007-11-26 17:08:41 UTC
This sounds like a kernel problem.

Comment 5 Stephen Smalley 2007-11-26 18:41:21 UTC
Looks like the nfs clone mount problem.  Eric has patches pending for SELinux
and NFS to fix.


Comment 6 Eric Paris 2007-11-26 18:52:23 UTC
yeah, dupe of 245058

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Comment 8 Eric Paris 2008-05-14 15:20:05 UTC
closing as upstream since a fix was accepted into 2.6.25