[RFC] change get_real_filename implementation to use ENOATTR instead of ENOENT

get_real_filename is implemented as a virtual extended attribute to help
Samba implement the case-insensitive but case preserving SMB protocol
more efficiently. It is implemented as a getxattr call on the parent directory
with the virtual key of "get_real_filename:<entryname>" by looking for a
spelling with different case for the provided file/dir name (<entryname>)
and returning this correct spelling as a result if the entry is found.
Originally (05aaec645a6262d431486eb5ac7cd702646cfcfb), the
implementation used the ENOENT errno to return the authoritative answer
that <entryname> does not exist in any case folding.

Now this implementation is actually a violation or misuse of the defined
API for the getxattr call which returns ENOENT for the case that the dir
that the call is made against does not exist and ENOATTR (or the synonym
ENODATA) for the case that the xattr does not exist.

This was not a problem until the gluster fuse-bridge was changed
to do map ENOENT to ESTALE in 59629f1da9dca670d5dcc6425f7f89b3e96b46bf,
after which we the getxattr call for get_real_filename returned an
ESTALE instead of ENOENT breaking the expectation in Samba.

It is an independent problem that ESTALE should not leak out to user
space but is intended to trigger retries between fuse and gluster.
But nevertheless, the semantics seem to be incorrect here and should
be changed.

This patch changes the implementation of the get_real_filename virtual
xattr to correctly return ENOATTR instead of ENOENT if the file/directory
being looked up is not found.

The Samba glusterfs_fuse vfs module which takes advantage of the
get_real_filename over a fuse mount will receive a corresponding change
to map ENOATTR to ENOENT. Without this change, it will still work
correctly, but the performance optimization for nonexisting files is
lost. On the other hand side, this change removes the distinction
between the old not-implemented case and the implemented case.
So Samba changed to treat ENOATTR like ENOENT will not work correctly
any more against old servers that don't implement get_real_filename.
I.e. existing files will be reported as non-existing

Change-Id: I971b427ab8410636d5d201157d9af70e0d075b67
fixes: bz#1722977
Signed-off-by: Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-inode-fd-ops.c b/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-inode-fd-ops.c
index 4311478766c..cf74327e1f5 100644
--- a/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-inode-fd-ops.c
+++ b/xlators/storage/posix/src/posix-inode-fd-ops.c
@@ -2960,7 +2960,7 @@ posix_xattr_get_real_filename(call_frame_t *frame, xlator_t *this, loc_t *loc,
     (void)sys_closedir(fd);
 
     if (!found)
-        return -ENOENT;
+        return -ENOATTR;
 
     ret = dict_set_dynstr(dict, (char *)key, found);
     if (ret) {
@@ -3428,7 +3428,7 @@ posix_getxattr(call_frame_t *frame, xlator_t *this, loc_t *loc,
         if (ret < 0) {
             op_ret = -1;
             op_errno = -ret;
-            if (op_errno == ENOENT) {
+            if (op_errno == ENOATTR) {
                 gf_msg_debug(this->name, 0,
                              "Failed to get "
                              "real filename (%s, %s)",