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Bug 1924950

Summary: Incorrect ownership for statd directory in nfs module
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Frank Sorenson <fsorenso>
Component: dracutAssignee: Lukáš Nykrýn <lnykryn>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Petr Matyáš <pmatyas>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.3CC: dracut-maint-list, dtardon, fsumsal, mezhu, pmatyas
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Bugfix, Patch, Triaged
Target Release: 8.0Flags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: dracut-049-151.git20210719.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2021-11-09 19:38:39 UTC Type: Bug
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patch to set correct ownership and mode none

Description Frank Sorenson 2021-02-04 00:26:52 UTC
Created attachment 1754935 [details]
patch to set correct ownership and mode

Description of problem:

The 'nfs' module creates the directory '$initdir/var/lib/nfs/statd/sm' and sets the permissions.  However, rpc.statd will setuid() to the owner of this directory at startup, and should run as 'rpcuser', so the ownership of the directory needs to be changed as well.

The current root:root ownership leads to a warning message at boot time:

  [daemon:warning] rpc.statd[534]: Running as root.  chown /var/lib/nfs/statd to choose different user


In addition, the mode for /var/lib/nfs/statd should be 0700, and /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm should be 0755


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

dracut-049-135.git20210121.el8.x86_64
upstream git



How reproducible:

 see reproducer below

Steps to Reproduce:

 dracut -f --add nfs
 lsinitrd | grep statd

Actual results:

$ lsinitrd | grep statd
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        83440 Oct 23 10:30 usr/sbin/rpc.statd
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 Oct 23 10:30 var/lib/nfs/statd
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 Oct 23 10:30 var/lib/nfs/statd/sm


Expected results:

$ lsinitrd | grep statd
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        83440 Oct 23 10:30 usr/sbin/rpc.statd
drwx------   3 rpcuser  rpcuser         0 Oct 23 10:30 var/lib/nfs/statd
drwxr-xr-x   2 rpcuser  rpcuser         0 Oct 23 10:30 var/lib/nfs/statd/sm



Additional info:

Upstream commit 5840c466 added tests for directory existence so that the code will work for SUSE which uses a different path.

5840c466 95nfs: /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm is /var/lib/nfs/sm on SUSE
Author: Daniel Molkentin <daniel.molkentin>
Date:   2020-11-14 16:10:55 +0100

    95nfs: /var/lib/nfs/statd/sm is /var/lib/nfs/sm on SUSE
    
    Reference: boo#1177462

However, this contains a bug, and the directory is not actually created.  (The test for existence of directory refers to '$initdir/var/lib/nfs/statd/sm' but should be '$dracutsysrootdir/var/lib/nfs/statd/sm')


Upstream patch attached -- tested for RHEL; have not tested the change for the SUSE directory

Comment 6 Petr Matyáš 2021-08-11 10:23:39 UTC
Verified on dracut-049-188.git20210802.el8.x86_64

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-11-09 19:38:39 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (dracut bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:4394