I have a running a fuse fs with options allow_other and umask 0. This gives me a set of files with permissions set to 777. Though when I try to ls -l in the directory containing the files I get the following output:
ls: name: Operation not permitted
ls: tags: Operation not permitted
ls: location: Operation not permitted
ls: ext: Operation not permitted
ls: experiment_id: Operation not permitted
ls: file_path: Operation not permitted
Can anyone tell me why despite having global permissions (777) I am still getting operation not permitted?
On running strace, I get the following traces:
lstat("tags", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lgetxattr("tags", "security.selinux", 0x112ae80, 255) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: ) = 4
write(2, "tags", 4tags) = 4
write(2, ": Operation not permitted", 25: Operation not permitted) = 25
write(2, "\n", 1
) = 1
lstat("location", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lgetxattr("location", "security.selinux", 0x112aea0, 255) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: ) = 4
write(2, "location", 8location) = 8
write(2, ": Operation not permitted", 25: Operation not permitted) = 25
write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
lstat("ext", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lgetxattr("ext", "security.selinux", 0x112aec0, 255) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: ) = 4
write(2, "ext", 3ext) = 3
write(2, ": Operation not permitted", 25: Operation not permitted) = 25
write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
lstat("experiment_id", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lgetxattr("experiment_id", "security.selinux", 0x112aee0, 255) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: ) = 4
write(2, "experiment_id", 13experiment_id) = 13
write(2, ": Operation not permitted", 25: Operation not permitted) = 25
write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
lstat("file_path", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lgetxattr("file_path", "security.selinux", 0x112af00, 255) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
write(2, "ls: ", 4ls: ) = 4
write(2, "file_path", 9file_path) = 9
write(2, ": Operation not permitted", 25: Operation not permitted) = 25
write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
So from the trace, it looks like its trying to get the selinux attribute even though its disabled on my system.
cat /etc//sysconfig/selinux
SELINUX=disabled
SELINUXTYPE=targeted
The problem was with my getxattr implementation. I was returning -1 on error which translated to EPERM, instead I should have returned ENODATA which is more correct error case for my logic. This fixed those errors as well.