Re: smbfs / loop: problematic or not unuseable?

From: Urban Widmark
Date: Mon Feb 16 2004 - 09:56:12 EST


On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Nico Schottelius wrote:

> Hello!
>
> While still suffering from my more or less dead harddisk I am seeing
> other nice problems. I copied my blowfish encrypted partition to a samba
> server. Now I want to mount it and use it:
>
> pc-it-nico# mount
> [...]
> //fs2/home on /home/nico/fs2 type smbfs (rw)
>
> pc-it-nico# mount /home/nico/fs2/home-13-Feb-2004.tar.crypt /tmp/ -o loop,encryption=blowfish
> Password:
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_FD: Invalid argument

Yes, it is known. You can try the patch below.

I don't know if there is anything more to supporting sendfile than this.
smb_file_sendfile follows the same pattern as the other smb_file_*
operations.

/Urban


diff -urN -X exclude linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/file.c linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/file.c
--- linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/file.c Mon Feb 9 19:04:47 2004
+++ linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/file.c Sun Feb 15 19:14:06 2004
@@ -257,6 +257,27 @@
return status;
}

+static ssize_t
+smb_file_sendfile(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos,
+ size_t count, read_actor_t actor, void __user *target)
+{
+ struct dentry *dentry = file->f_dentry;
+ ssize_t status;
+
+ VERBOSE("file %s/%s, pos=%Ld, count=%d\n",
+ DENTRY_PATH(dentry), *ppos, count);
+
+ status = smb_revalidate_inode(dentry);
+ if (status) {
+ PARANOIA("%s/%s validation failed, error=%d\n",
+ DENTRY_PATH(dentry), status);
+ goto out;
+ }
+ status = generic_file_sendfile(file, ppos, count, actor, target);
+out:
+ return status;
+}
+
/*
* This does the "real" work of the write. The generic routine has
* allocated the page, locked it, done all the page alignment stuff
@@ -388,6 +409,7 @@
.open = smb_file_open,
.release = smb_file_release,
.fsync = smb_fsync,
+ .sendfile = smb_file_sendfile,
};

struct inode_operations smb_file_inode_operations =
diff -urN -X exclude linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/proc.c
--- linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/proc.c Mon Feb 9 19:08:39 2004
+++ linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/proc.c Sun Feb 15 19:16:40 2004
@@ -1015,12 +1015,6 @@
p += 19;
p += 8;

- /* FIXME: the request will fail if the 'tid' is changed. This
- should perhaps be set just before transmitting ... */
- WSET(req->rq_header, smb_tid, server->opt.tid);
- WSET(req->rq_header, smb_pid, 1);
- WSET(req->rq_header, smb_uid, server->opt.server_uid);
-
if (server->opt.protocol > SMB_PROTOCOL_CORE) {
int flags = SMB_FLAGS_CASELESS_PATHNAMES;
int flags2 = SMB_FLAGS2_LONG_PATH_COMPONENTS |
diff -urN -X exclude linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/request.c linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/request.c
--- linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/request.c Fri Jan 9 08:00:13 2004
+++ linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/request.c Sun Feb 15 16:41:34 2004
@@ -384,6 +384,12 @@
struct smb_sb_info *server = req->rq_server;
int result;

+ if (req->rq_bytes_sent == 0) {
+ WSET(req->rq_header, smb_tid, server->opt.tid);
+ WSET(req->rq_header, smb_pid, 1);
+ WSET(req->rq_header, smb_uid, server->opt.server_uid);
+ }
+
result = smb_send_request(req);
if (result < 0 && result != -EAGAIN)
goto out;
diff -urN -X exclude linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c
--- linux-2.6.3-rc1-orig/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c Fri Jan 9 07:59:45 2004
+++ linux-2.6.3-rc1-smbfs/fs/smbfs/smbiod.c Sun Feb 15 16:44:07 2004
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@
while (head != &server->xmitq) {
req = list_entry(head, struct smb_request, rq_queue);
head = head->next;
+
+ WSET(req->rq_header, smb_uid, -1);
+ req->rq_bytes_sent = 0;
if (req->rq_flags & SMB_REQ_NORETRY) {
VERBOSE("aborting request %p on xmitq\n", req);
req->rq_errno = -EIO;

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