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Date:      Sat, 5 Apr 2025 16:12:51 +0000
From:      Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>
To:        Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Heads Up: commit 2ec2ba7e232d just hit main
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 08:52:06AM -0700, Rick Macklem wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2025 at 01:04:25AM +0000, Shawn Webb wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2025 at 05:40:21PM -0700, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 06:12:59PM -0700, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org> wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 01:51:26PM -0700, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > > > > > > > > The commit 2ec2ba7e232d just hit main.  I do not think it will
> > > > > > > > > cause problems, but it is fairly large.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Man page updates will be done as separate commits.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Hopefully this will not cause grief, rick
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hey Rick,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > The patch review test plan mentions a patch to ZFS itself to support
> > > > > > > > named attributes. Is that patch available somewhere?
> > > > > > > The ZFS patch is currently in phabricator as D49654.
> > > > > > > Feel free to review it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It can also be found at:
> > > > > > > https://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/zfs-xattr.patch
> > > > > > > (this is a smaller diff which can be applied to an up-to-date main src
> > > > > > > tree easily)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hey Rick,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I applied that zfs patch, but trying pathconf(2) on a file on a ZFS
> > > > > > dataset with xattr=on (which seems to be the default) returns 0. Am I
> > > > > > doing something wrong?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ==== BEGIN LOG ====
> > > > > > hbsd-current-01[shawn]:/home/shawn/tmp $ ./xattrtest xattrtest
> > > > > > xattrtest: Named attributes not enabled: No error: 0
> > > > > > hbsd-current-01[shawn]:/home/shawn/tmp (1) $ zfs list /usr/home/shawn
> > > > > > NAME             USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> > > > > > rpool/usr/home  10.4G  71.4G  9.85G  /usr/home
> > > > > > hbsd-current-01[shawn]:/home/shawn/tmp $ zfs get xattr rpool/usr/home
> > > > > > NAME            PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
> > > > > > rpool/usr/home  xattr     on     default
> > > > > > ==== END LOG ====
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That xattrtest application is yours from:
> > > > > > https://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem/xattrtest.c
> > > > > No idea. It works for me. You used up-to-date kernel sources?
> > > > > (Check that VIRF_NAMEDATTR is defined in sys/sys/vnode.h.)
> > > > > Oh, and one more thing to check. zfs_xattr_compat needs to be non-zero.
> > > > > (It's found in sys/contrib/openzfs/module/os/freebsd/zfs/zfs_vnops_os.c.
> > > > > It's initialized to 1 and I don't see anything that sets it to 0?)
> > > >
> > > > It is indeed set to 1.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > The only thing I can think if is, if you changed xattr to on, you need to
> > > > > reboot (or at least remount) to get it to take effect.
> > > > > (Maybe try setting it to "dir" and then reboot/remount. Maybe there is
> > > > > a difference between "on" and "dir"?)
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, tried rebooting and still no go. Note that xattr defaults to
> > > > "on" in FreeBSD by default. My src tree is synced up to FreeBSD commit
> > > > 7e70d94acd68b3ac6b45f49d4ab7a0f7867c3ea7. I brought in the ZFS patch
> > > > you linked to.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Or, did you build zfs.ko some other way than as part of a kernel build?
> > > > > (It needs the patched .h files in the kernel sources, not something in
> > > > > /usr/include/sys
> > > > > that has not yet been updated.)
> > > > > All the ZFS changes are #ifdef'd, since OpenZFS requires the sources
> > > > > build for older kernels. (Basically #ifdef'd on that VIRF_NAMEDATTR mentioned
> > > > > above.)
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps I need to do a clean build. I'll try that and report back.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > It does remind me that I need to try a build of zfs.ko by doing a "make" in
> > > > > the module directory.
> > > > >
> > > > > You can try the attached trivial patch and see if it spits out "pathconf ret=1"
> > > > > on the console.
> > > >
> > > > I'll try that after a clean rebuild of the kernel.
> > >
> > > Clean rebuild didn't resolve it. However, I made some progress.
> > >
> > > I created a dataset specifically for this since I can't really unmount
> > > my /usr/home dataset, so my example down below is a bit different than
> > > the previous example I gave.
> > >
> > > The xattr property is set to "on" for the dataset. However, it's not
> > > mounted with the xattr property. In order to get it to work, I had to
> > > run the following commands:
> > >
> > > ==== BEGIN LOG ====
> > > $ sudo zfs umount rpool/scratch/xattr
> > > $ sudo mount -t zfs -o xattr rpool/scratch/xattr /scratch/xattr
> > > $ zfs get xattr rpool/scratch/xattr
> > > NAME                 PROPERTY  VALUE  SOURCE
> > > rpool/scratch/xattr  xattr     on     local
> > > $ mount | grep xattr
> > > rpool/scratch/xattr on /scratch/xattr (zfs, local, noatime, nfsv4acls, named attributes)
> > > $ mount | grep named
> > > rpool/scratch/xattr on /scratch/xattr (zfs, local, noatime, nfsv4acls, named attributes)
> > > ==== END LOG ====
> > >
> > > So it looks like FreeBSD does not honor the xattr zfs property,
> > > otherwise you would see a whole bunch of datasets mounted with the
> > > "named attributes" flag in that last `mount | grep` command.
> > I've looked at this a little more...
> > There is a function xattr_changed_cb() that updates the xattr property
> > information.
> > It gets called when "zfs set xattr=XX <file-system>" is done or when
> > the mount option "xattr" is set.
> >
> > The question seems to be "Why was the stuff not correctly set for your file
> > systems, although they show xattr=on?"

This is indeed what I was inferring. xattr has been set to "on" since
the pool's creation as far as I can tell. Until experimenting with
your patch, I didn't really even know the xattr property even existed.

> > Maybe I'll try and ask somewhere there are ZFS wizards or look in some
> > OpenZFS commit logs.
> >
> > Have your ZFS file systems that do not have "named attribute" set been
> > around for quite a while? (I'm thinking that they might have been configured
> > differently when they were created and never changed.)
> >
> > It does look like the commands (done as root) should do the same thing
> > as your umount/mount did.
> > # zfs set xattr=off <file-system>
> > # zfs set xattr=dir <file-system>
> Oh, and followed by a reboot or umount/mount without the xattr mount option.

The ZFS pool in the VM I'm testing was created in 2020. I would have
thought that the datasets would be mounted with "named attribute"
support by default since the xattr attribute is set to "on" for every
single dataset. A reboot does not cause the datasets to be mounted
with "named attribute" support. I had to unmount the dataset manually,
then run that `mount -t zfs -o xattr ...` command manually.

I suspect that the dataset automounting code paths, as performed at
boot time, might need to be updated. I have zero experience with ZFS
code, so my suspicion could be completely incorrect.

From a user's perspective, it seems that the xattr property is ignored
when ZFS automounts a dataset on FreeBSD. That behavior is what is
causing my suspicion above.

Thanks,

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