[RFC PATCH v2 14/41] nfsd: don't hand out uid 0 for read layouts of UUID-owned files

sashiko-bot at kernel.org sashiko-bot at kernel.org
Thu Oct 22 03:17:37 UTC 2026


> Read-only flexfile layout segments use the owner's uid plus one, so the
> client gets no write access on the data server. For a UUID or GUID
> owner from_kuid() is -1 and the "plus one" makes it 0, root. Use the
> overflow uid for them instead.
> 
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Koester <jan.koester at tuxist.de>

Sashiko has reviewed this patch and found no issues.

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