Bug 811874

Summary: Applications indefinitely wait when changing file owner group to group containing spaces
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Piotr Piotrowski <ppp5>
Component: nfs-utilsAssignee: Steve Dickson <steved>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 16CC: bfields, jlayton, steved
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Description Piotr Piotrowski 2012-04-12 08:13:09 UTC
Description of problem:
I have an NFS file system containing home directories and authentication through LDAP. One of the user groups stored in LDAP contains spaces. The command:
chown ":Group with spaces" file
hangs. Similarly
ar rv file.a file

On the server side in /var/log/messages the following message appears:
rpc.idmapd[1451]: nfsdcb: bad name in upcall

I do not know when exactly this problem started, but some time ago there was no such problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nfs-utils-1.2.5-5.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure LDAP authentication
2. Add group with spaces (smbldap-tools convention)
3. Mount NFS
4. Execute the following command on the mounted NFS: chown ":Group with spaces" someFile

Actual results:
chown waits indefinitely

Expected results:
chown finishes successfully

Additional info:

Comment 1 Steve Dickson 2012-04-22 20:14:01 UTC
The problem here is 'spaces' are used as field delimiters in the kernel
upcall, so its not clear what if anything can be done other than not
using spaces in group names....

Comment 2 J. Bruce Fields 2012-04-23 14:34:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> The problem here is 'spaces' are used as field delimiters in the kernel
> upcall, so its not clear what if anything can be done other than not
> using spaces in group names....

The kernel escapes any spaces in the group name, so that shouldn't be a problem.  It would be useful to see the upcall--"strace -e read -s4096 `pidof rpc.idmapd`" might help.

Comment 3 Piotr Piotrowski 2012-04-23 19:09:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> The kernel escapes any spaces in the group name, so that shouldn't be a
> problem.  It would be useful to see the upcall--"strace -e read -s4096 `pidof
> rpc.idmapd`" might help.

read(4, "MY_IP/255.255.255.128 group Domain\\040Users@MY_DOMAIN\n", 257) = 63

I hope this is what you wanted.

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