Re: [resolved] Filesystem (directory) permissions meaningdifference for x86_64 and x86 for 3.1?

From: Bruno PrÃmont
Date: Sun Nov 13 2011 - 06:11:27 EST


On Wed, 09 November 2011 Bruno PrÃmont wrote:
> On a x86_64 system I'm getting permission denied when trying to chdir()
> into a directory where I have only 'x' permissions (be it with unix
> permissions or with posix ACLs).
> For the same layout of directory I can successfully chdir() on x86 as I
> can with older kernels of 2.6 series.
>
> In both cases the filesystem is tmpfs with support for posix ACLs and
> kernel is 3.1.0.
>
>
> Directory layout:
> drwx--x--- 3 root test 60 Nov 9 21:14 /tmp/btest
> drwxrwx--- 2 root test 40 Nov 9 21:14 /tmp/btest/subtest
> drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Nov 9 21:10 /tmp/test
> drwxrwx---+ 2 root root 40 Nov 9 21:10 /tmp/test/subtest
>
> Posix ACLs
> # file: /tmp/test
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rwx
> group::r-x
> group:test:--x
> mask::r-x
> other::---
>
> # file: test/subtest/
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rwx
> group::r-x
> group:test:rwx
> mask::rwx
> other::---
>
>
> When executing as user test (with test as only group), on x86_64 I get
> EPERM on chdir(X) where X is any one of the 4 directories above.
>
> On x86 I can chdir() into the directory without issue (as expected),
> and when in /tmp/test (or /tmp/btest) I get EPERM when trying to list
> contents - expected as well. Under subtest I can list content.
>
> The same results are obtained on XFS filesystem.
>
> Any idea what's wrong?

The issue was two entries in /etc/group for the same group name but with
two distinct GIDs :/
This explains why I could not reproduce on a different system!

Bruno
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