On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 03:50:14PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:26:48AM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> > On May 15, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > While trying to update a kernel and modules on one of my test systems,
> > > I was greeted by these errors:
> > >
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/drx39xyj/drx39xyj.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/usb/em28xx/em28xx.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/option.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/brcmfmac.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/fs/udf/udf.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/sound/soc/codecs/snd-soc-wm8962.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.ko: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/modules.alias.bin: Cannot utime
> > > tar: lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/modules.alias: Cannot utime
> > > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> > >
> > > Searching google wasn't helpful, as all the "Cannot utime" errors that
> > > google could find are followed by an errno string.
> > >
> > > stracing at first sight didn't seem to be helpful, as no syscalls (apart
> > > from openat() with a pre-existing file) were failing.
> > >
> > > Having recently updated to fc21 tar generating the archive, I thought
> > > maybe it was a tar format bug between fc21 tar and the target's tar.
> > > That was until I tried to "apt-get source tar" on the target, and was
> > > greeted by the same error.
> > >
> > > So I then tried untaring the tar source archive onto a ramfs, which
> > > worked without complaint. The difference being that it's a root NFS
> > > box, and so I was untaring onto NFS.
> > >
> > > Here's the entry from /proc/mounts:
> > >
> > > x.y.z.221:/var/boot/ci on / type nfs (rw,nolock,vers=4,addr=x.y.z.221,clientaddr=a.b.c.55)
> > >
> > > Looking closer at the strace reveals this:
> > >
> > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC, 0600) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
> > > unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", 0) = 0
> > > openat(AT_FDCWD, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/drivers/media/platform/coda/coda.ko", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC, 0600) = 4
> > > write(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\1\0(\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 4096
> > > ...
> > > write(4, "\300H\0\0\34\345\1\0\314H\0\0\34\345\1\0\330H\0\0\34\345\1\0<I\0\0\34\370\1\0"..., 7312) = 7312
> > > dup2(4, 4) = 4
> > > fstat64(4, {st_mode=0757221, st_size=13181880119170311768, ...}) = 21
> > > write(2, "tar: ", 5) = 5
> > > write(2, "lib/modules/4.1.0-rc2+/kernel/dr"..., 79) = 79
> > > write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
> > > fchown32(4, 0, 0) = 0
> > > fchmod(4, 0664) = 0
> > > close(4) = 0
> > >
> > > Look closely at that fstat64, and you'll notice that it's returning crap.
> >
> > This is likely fixed by:
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=143095122604344&w=2
>
> Yes, it appears to be fixed by that change. I'll add it to my tree so
> my test systems work.
I notice NFS patches were merged by Linus recently, but this patch was not
in the set. Is this patch scheduled to go in for 4.1?
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