[PATCH 06/15] fuse: Fix mount options

Hanna Czenczek posted 15 patches 1 week ago
[PATCH 06/15] fuse: Fix mount options
Posted by Hanna Czenczek 1 week ago
Since I actually took a look into how mounting with libfuse works[1], I
now know that the FUSE mount options are not exactly standard mount
system call options.  Specifically:
- We should add "nosuid,nodev,noatime" because that is going to be
  translated into the respective MS_ mount flags; and those flags make
  sense for us.
- We can set rw/ro to make the mount writable or not.  It makes sense to
  set this flag to produce a better error message for read-only exports
  (EROFS instead of EACCES).
  This changes behavior as can be seen in iotest 308: It is no longer
  possible to modify metadata of read-only exports.

In addition, in the comment, we can note that the FUSE mount() system
call actually expects some more parameters that we can omit because
fusermount3 (i.e. libfuse) will figure them out by itself:
- fd: /dev/fuse fd
- rootmode: Inode mode of the root node
- user_id/group_id: Mounter's UID/GID

[1] It invokes fusermount3, an SUID libfuse helper program, which parses
    and processes some mount options before actually invoking the
    mount() system call.

Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
---
 block/export/fuse.c        | 14 +++++++++++---
 tests/qemu-iotests/308     |  4 ++--
 tests/qemu-iotests/308.out |  3 ++-
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/export/fuse.c b/block/export/fuse.c
index 7bdec43b5c..0d20995a0e 100644
--- a/block/export/fuse.c
+++ b/block/export/fuse.c
@@ -246,10 +246,18 @@ static int mount_fuse_export(FuseExport *exp, Error **errp)
     int ret;
 
     /*
-     * max_read needs to match what fuse_init() sets.
-     * max_write need not be supplied.
+     * Note that these mount options differ from what we would pass to a direct
+     * mount() call:
+     * - nosuid, nodev, and noatime are not understood by the kernel; libfuse
+     *   uses those options to construct the mount flags (MS_*)
+     * - The FUSE kernel driver requires additional options (fd, rootmode,
+     *   user_id, group_id); these will be set by libfuse.
+     * Note that max_read is set here, while max_write is set via the FUSE INIT
+     * operation.
      */
-    mount_opts = g_strdup_printf("max_read=%zu,default_permissions%s",
+    mount_opts = g_strdup_printf("%s,nosuid,nodev,noatime,max_read=%zu,"
+                                 "default_permissions%s",
+                                 exp->writable ? "rw" : "ro",
                                  FUSE_MAX_BOUNCE_BYTES,
                                  exp->allow_other ? ",allow_other" : "");
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/308 b/tests/qemu-iotests/308
index ea81dc496a..266b109ff3 100755
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/308
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/308
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ stat -c 'Permissions pre-chmod: %a' "$EXT_MP"
 chmod u+w "$EXT_MP" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
 stat -c 'Permissions post-+w: %a' "$EXT_MP"
 
-# But that we can set, say, +x (if we are so inclined)
+# Same for other flags, like, say +x
 chmod u+x "$EXT_MP" 2>&1 | _filter_testdir | _filter_imgfmt
 stat -c 'Permissions post-+x: %a' "$EXT_MP"
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ output=$($QEMU_IO -f raw -c 'write -P 42 1M 64k' "$TEST_IMG" 2>&1 \
 
 # Expected reference output: Opening the file fails because it has no
 # write permission
-reference="Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Permission denied"
+reference="Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT': Read-only file system"
 
 if echo "$output" | grep -q "$reference"; then
     echo "Writing to read-only export failed: OK"
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out
index e5e233691d..aa96faab6d 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/308.out
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ Images are identical.
 Permissions pre-chmod: 400
 chmod: changing permissions of 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.fuse': Read-only file system
 Permissions post-+w: 400
-Permissions post-+x: 500
+chmod: changing permissions of 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.fuse': Read-only file system
+Permissions post-+x: 400
 
 === Mount over existing file ===
 {'execute': 'block-export-add',
-- 
2.48.1
Re: [PATCH 06/15] fuse: Fix mount options
Posted by Stefan Hajnoczi 5 days, 22 hours ago
On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 05:06:46PM +0100, Hanna Czenczek wrote:
> Since I actually took a look into how mounting with libfuse works[1], I
> now know that the FUSE mount options are not exactly standard mount
> system call options.  Specifically:
> - We should add "nosuid,nodev,noatime" because that is going to be
>   translated into the respective MS_ mount flags; and those flags make
>   sense for us.
> - We can set rw/ro to make the mount writable or not.  It makes sense to
>   set this flag to produce a better error message for read-only exports
>   (EROFS instead of EACCES).
>   This changes behavior as can be seen in iotest 308: It is no longer
>   possible to modify metadata of read-only exports.
> 
> In addition, in the comment, we can note that the FUSE mount() system
> call actually expects some more parameters that we can omit because
> fusermount3 (i.e. libfuse) will figure them out by itself:
> - fd: /dev/fuse fd
> - rootmode: Inode mode of the root node
> - user_id/group_id: Mounter's UID/GID
> 
> [1] It invokes fusermount3, an SUID libfuse helper program, which parses
>     and processes some mount options before actually invoking the
>     mount() system call.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hanna Czenczek <hreitz@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/export/fuse.c        | 14 +++++++++++---
>  tests/qemu-iotests/308     |  4 ++--
>  tests/qemu-iotests/308.out |  3 ++-
>  3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>