Debugging a system call from FUSE

Question

I'm writing a FUSE filesystem that does some mapping through sqlite, then passes the calls through to the underlying filesystem (somewhat of an expansion on bbfs). It started giving me trouble when I tried to start making files. When I call mknod, it returns with ERANGE. Here's the tail of an strace (filesystem is mounted on test/):

$ ./p4fs test/
$ strace touch test/kilo 2> logs
$ cat logs
...
fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=56467024, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 56467024, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fbf006bf000
close(3)                                = 0
close(0)                                = 0
open("test/kilo", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY|O_NONBLOCK, 0666) = -1 ERANGE (Numerical result out of range)
futimesat(AT_FDCWD, "test/kilo", NULL)  = 0
close(1)                                = 0
exit_group(0)                           = ?

and here's the relevant section from my internal logging:

getattr: database opened
getattr: requesting attr for /kilo
db_getrowid: statement executed: finding rowid of /kilo
db_getrowid: mapped /kilo to rowid 0
getattr: does not exist: /kilo
mknod: database opened
mknod: statement executed: checking for existing path
mknod: calling db_mkdentry(db, /kilo, 100644, 0, 0)
db_mkdentry: parent is /
db_getrowid: statement executed: finding rowid of /
db_getrowid: mapped / to rowid 1
db_mkdentry: statement executed: creating dentry /kilo
db_getrowid: statement executed: finding rowid of /kilo
db_getrowid: mapped /kilo to rowid 3
p4fs: calling system mknod(3, 100644, 0)
p4fs: got errno 13

I'm looking for (1) the solution to this immediate problem and (2) a good way to debug FUSE in general. I have a sneaking suspicion that the ERANGE is coming from strtol(), but I don't know how to check. I wish I could make gdb pop up when it hits the callback...

Thanks!

EDIT: Oh, here's the source for my mknod() function:

static int p4_mknod(const char *path, mode_t mode, dev_t dev) {
        sqlite3 *db;
        sqlite3_stmt *statement;
        char query[MAX_QUERY_LENGTH];
        int rc;
        int return_value;
        int path_exists = -1;

        OPEN_LOG("mknod")
        OPEN_DB(db_path, db)

        /* check for existing filename */
        sprintf(query,
                "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM dentry "
                "WHERE name = '%s'",
                path);
        sqlite3_prepare(db,
                query,
                -1,
                &statement,
                NULL);
        rc = sqlite3_step(statement);
        SQLITE3_ERRCHK("checking for existing path")
        path_exists = sqlite3_column_int(statement, 0);
        sqlite3_finalize(statement);

        if (path_exists <= 0) {
                int physical_rowid;
                char physical_name[MAX_QUERY_LENGTH];

                /* path is not already in db */
                syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "calling db_mkdentry(db, %s, %o, 0, 0)",
                        path, mode);
                db_mkdentry(db, (char *) path, mode, 0, 0);

                /* make the actual file */
                physical_rowid = db_getrowid(db, (char *) path);
                sprintf(physical_name, "%i", physical_rowid);
                syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "calling system mknod(%s, %o, %li)",
                        physical_name, mode, dev);
                return_value = mknod(physical_name, mode, dev);
        } else {
                syslog(LOG_INFO, "called on existing path");
                return_value = -EEXIST;
        }

        syslog(LOG_DEBUG, "errno %i", errno);

        return errno;
}

Answer 1

It's not really an answer, but I got around the issue by running as root. I suspect it has something to do with FUSE, because I had a similar issue when trying to get sshfs to run as a normal user a few months ago.