Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Jul 2014 16:20:44 -0400 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix permission checking by NFS client for open-create with mode 000 | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> |
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 07:12:09PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > Oops. Sorry, the correct sub-sub-sub-sub-....paragraph is this one: > > Permission to execute a file. > > Servers SHOULD allow a user the ability to read the data of the > file when only the ACE4_EXECUTE access mask bit is allowed. > This is because there is no way to execute a file without > reading the contents. Though a server may treat ACE4_EXECUTE > and ACE4_READ_DATA bits identically when deciding to permit a > READ operation, it SHOULD still allow the two bits to be set > independently in ACLs, and MUST distinguish between them when > replying to ACCESS operations. In particular, servers SHOULD > NOT silently turn on one of the two bits when the other is set, > as that would make it impossible for the client to correctly > enforce the distinction between read and execute permissions. > > > > To me that translates as saying that the server SHOULD accept an > > OPEN(SHARE_ACCESS_READ|SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE) request in the above > > situation. > > Same conclusion, though....
Are we sure that's not just a spec bug?
Allowing OPEN(BOTH) on a -wx file seems like a pretty weird result.
--b.
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