NetBSD Problem Report #55932

From martin@aprisoft.de  Sat Jan 16 12:20:47 2021
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:20:36 +0100 (CET)
From: martin@NetBSD.org
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Subject: NFS root is not read only
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>Number:         55932
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       NFS root is not read only
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 16 12:25:00 +0000 2021
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jun 09 01:45:01 +0000 2021
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 9.99.77
>Organization:
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD martins.aprisoft.de 9.99.77 NetBSD 9.99.77 (GENERIC) #42: Sat Jan 2 21:12:56 CET 2021 martin@martins.aprisoft.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:

When using a read-only mount for / on a diskless client the mountall
rc.d script fails:

Mounting all file systems...
mount_nfs: emmas:/fire-below on /: Operation not supported
/etc/rc.d/mountall exited with code 1

This is with a /etc/fstab entry like:

# NetBSD /etc/fstab
# See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
emmas:/fire-below       /               nfs     ro
tmpfs                   /tmp            tmpfs   rw,-sram%30
tmpfs                   /var            tmpfs   rw,-sram%30
kernfs                  /kern           kernfs  rw
ptyfs                   /dev/pts        ptyfs   rw
procfs                  /proc           procfs  rw


It seems that NFS can not downgrade from a rw to a ro mount (this is bug 1)
and the kernel NFS mountroot code seems to alread mount / as read-write
(different than all other file systems mounted as root - this is bug 2).

>How-To-Repeat:
s/a

>Fix:
n/a

>Audit-Trail:
From: mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/55932: NFS root is not read only
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2021 13:51:50 -0000 (UTC)

 martin@NetBSD.org writes:

 >and the kernel NFS mountroot code seems to alread mount / as read-write
 >(different than all other file systems mounted as root - this is bug 2).

 Bug 2 seems to be intentional:

         /*
          * Historical practice expects NFS root file systems to
          * be initially mounted r/w.
          */
         mp->mnt_flag &= ~MNT_RDONLY;

 -- 
 -- 
                                 Michael van Elst
 Internet: mlelstv@serpens.de
                                 "A potential Snark may lurk in every tree."

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/55932: NFS root is not read only
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 01:40:08 +0000

 On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:55:01PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
  >  >and the kernel NFS mountroot code seems to alread mount / as read-write
  >  >(different than all other file systems mounted as root - this is bug 2).
  >  
  >  Bug 2 seems to be intentional:
  >  
  >          /*
  >           * Historical practice expects NFS root file systems to
  >           * be initially mounted r/w.
  >           */
  >          mp->mnt_flag &= ~MNT_RDONLY;

 There's no reason to mount an nfs root readonly. Mounting root
 readonly is so you can fsck.

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

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