[PATCH 0/2] cifs: Improve access without FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES permission

[Pali Rohár]

Linux SMB client currently is not able to access files for which do not
have FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES permission.

For example it is not able to write data into file on SMB server to
which has only write access (no read or read attributes access). And
applications are not able to get result of stat() syscall on such file.

Test case against Windows SMB server:

1) On SMB server prepare file with only GENERIC_WRITE access for Everyone:
   ACL:S-1-1-0:ALLOWED/0x0/0x40000000

2) On SMB server remove all access for file's parent directory

3) Mount share by Linux SMB client and try to append data to that file:
   echo test >> /mnt/share/dir/file

4) Try to call: stat /mnt/share/dir/file

Without this change the write test fails because Linux SMB client is trying
to open SMB path "\dir\file" with GENERIC_WRITE|FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES. With
this change the test pass as Linux SMB client is not opening file with
FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES access anymore.

Similarly without this change the stat test always fails as Linux SMB
client is trying to read attributes via SMB2_OP_QUERY_INFO. With this
change, if SMB2_OP_QUERY_INFO fails then Linux SMB client fallbacks for
reading stat attributes via OPEN with MAXIMUM_ALLOWED access (which will
pass if there is some permission) and OPEN reply will contain attributes
required for stat().

Pali Rohár (2):
  cifs: Do not issue SMB2 CREATE always with FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES
  cifs: Improve stat() to work also without FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES

 fs/smb/client/cifspdu.h   |  1 +
 fs/smb/client/smb2file.c  |  1 -
 fs/smb/client/smb2glob.h  |  1 +
 fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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