[PR15114] What nfsd.* probes does it make sense to add uid/gid variable to?

Steve Dickson SteveD@redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 19:05:00 GMT 2013



On 12/02/13 15:52, David Smith wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> Jiri came up with the idea of adding uid/gid information to the
> nfsd.proc.write aliases. I fleshed out the idea a bit more. For all the
> gory details, see:
> 
> <http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15114>
> 
> So, we need a couple of questions answered by someone who actually
> understands the NFS daemon. Does it make sense to add uid/gid probe
> variables to read/write and all the remaining nfsd operation probes
> (open lookup commit create unlink rename close)? 
I would think so... It seems like its something you could filter on... 

> Will that information be available for all the protocol variants (v[2-4])?
They  should be... all those ops have do have uids and gids associated
with for permission purposes... 

If you need any help testing... just let me know... 

steved.
 
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 



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