Re: [PATCH] fs/ceph/super: add mount options "snapdir{mode,uid,gid}"

[Xiubo Li]

On 25/10/2022 15:22, Max Kellermann wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 3:36 AM Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Currently cephx permission has already supported the 's' permission,
> > which means you can do the snapshot create/remove. And for a privileged
> > or specific mounts you can give them the 's' permission and then only
> > they can do the snapshot create/remove. And all the others won't.
> But that's a client permission, not a user permission.
>
> I repeat: the problem is that snapshots should only be
> accessible/discoverable/creatable by certain users (UIDs/GIDs) on the
> client machine, independent of their permission on the parent
> directory.

Hi Max,

Yeah, the cephx permission could cover this totally and there is no need 
to worry about the user id mapping issue.

You can allow the mount with specific client ids, "client.privileged" 
for example, could create/remove the snapshots:

[client.privileged]
    key = AQA19uZUqIwkHxAAFuUwvq0eJD4S173oFRxe0g==
    caps mds = "allow rws /"
    caps mon = "allow *"
    caps osd = "allow *"

[client.global]
    key = xE21RuZTqIuiHxFFAuEwv4TjJD3R176BFOi4Fj==
    caps mds = "allow rw /"
    caps mon = "allow *"
    caps osd = "allow *"

Then specify the client ids when mounting:

$ sudo ./bin/mount.ceph privileged@.a=/ /mnt/privileged/mountpoint

$ sudo ./bin/mount.ceph global@.a=/ /mnt/global/mountpoint

Just to make sure only certain users, who have permission to 
create/remove snapshots, could access to the "/mnt/privileged/" directory.

I didn't read the openshift code, but when I was debugging the bugs and 
from the logs I saw it acting similarly to this.

> My patch decouples parent directory permissions from snapdir
> permissions, and it's a simple and elegant solution to my problem.

Yeah, I'm aware of the differences between these two approaches exactly. 
This should be a common feature not only in kernel client. We also need 
to implement this in cephfs user space client. If the above cephx 
permission approach could work very well everywhere, I am afraid this 
couldn't go to ceph in user space.

> > And then use the container or something else to make the specific users
> > could access to them.
> Sorry, I don't get it at all. What is "the container or something" and
> how does it enable me to prevent specific users from accessing
> snapdirs in their home directories?
Please see my above example. If that still won't work well, please send 
one mail in ceph-user to discuss this further, probably we can get more 
feedbacks from there.

Thanks!

- Xiubo