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Bug #51266 stat failed on cifs-mounted files
Submitted: 2010-03-10 21:06 UTC Modified: 2013-02-18 00:34 UTC
Votes:12
Avg. Score:4.3 ± 1.2
Reproduced:12 of 12 (100.0%)
Same Version:5 (41.7%)
Same OS:7 (58.3%)
From: dctucker at hotmail dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Filesystem function related
PHP Version: 5.3.2 OS: Arch Linux (current)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2010-03-10 21:06 UTC] dctucker at hotmail dot com 
Description:
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This bug affects filemtime, filesize, and other stat-related functions. When attempting to get file information from a file hosted on a mounted CIFS share (e.g. /mnt/share/Dir/file.wav), it fails. This is specifically a PHP problem because I am able to work around this problem by executing the stat command from a shell or using `back-tick operator`.

Test script:
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<?php

$fm = filemtime('/mnt/share/Dir/file.wav');
echo $fm;

?>

Expected result:
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18293749557

Actual result:
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Warning: filemtime(): stat failed for /mnt/share/Dir/file.wav in - on line 3

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 [2010-03-10 21:09 UTC] dctucker at hotmail dot com 
Works fine under shell with the same user as PHP runs in Apache:

$ sudo -u nobody stat /mnt/share/Dir/file.wav
  File: `/mnt/share/Dir/file.wav'
  Size: 159432852       Blocks: 311400     IO Block: 16384  regular file
Device: fh/15d  Inode: 281474976737089  Links: 1
Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--)  Uid: (   99/  nobody)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2010-03-08 09:01:09.987840000 -0500
Modify: 2010-03-06 00:00:00.000000000 -0500
Change: 2010-03-05 07:31:34.933320700 -0500
 [2010-03-10 21:13 UTC] dctucker at hotmail dot com 
I would also like to add that this bug did not exist in versions prior to php-5.2.5
 [2010-03-23 19:20 UTC] mail at daniel-berlin dot de 
For me, it doesn't even work with PHP 5.3.2
 [2010-03-23 19:23 UTC] mail at daniel-berlin dot de 
Sorry, I meant 5.2.4 ...
 [2010-03-24 20:05 UTC] mail at daniel-berlin dot de 
Adding cifs option "noserverino" solves the problem.
 [2010-05-20 12:19 UTC] mike@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Bogus
 [2010-05-20 12:19 UTC] mike@php.net 
Works fine here too, so I assume it's not a PHP bug.
 [2010-05-20 21:54 UTC] dctucker at hotmail dot com 
Mike,

Using the 'noserverino' workaround does mitigate the problem, but it does not address the underlying issue.
 [2010-05-21 11:23 UTC] mike@php.net
-Status: Bogus +Status: Feedback
 [2010-05-21 11:23 UTC] mike@php.net 
How does the mount command look like, so that it fails?
 [2010-06-03 20:37 UTC] dctucker at hotmail dot com 
The mount command lacks noserverino:

$ tail -n 1 /etc/fstab
//theword/d  /mnt/theword  cifs    nocase,file_mode=0664,dir_mode=0775,username=Administrator%,uid=nobody 0 0
 [2010-06-04 08:32 UTC] mike@php.net 
Cannot reproduce, still works fine here.

When you edit your report, please re-open it, too.
 [2010-07-30 15:20 UTC] beststom14 at hotmail dot com 
Same issue. Windows Seven 32 bit. When programming a file manager i found that some dirs were being listed as files. For some reason when i create a new dir it gets listed correctly but when i COPY it from somewhere it is listed as a file.
 [2011-11-30 20:39 UTC] brandonkirsch at gmail dot com 
We recently upgraded our underlying Linux OS and ran into this same issue.  For 
other Googlers who come across this bug report:  Use the "noserverino" mount 
option as specified by others.

If you want to know more about this issue, see: 
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.cifs

The important thing to know is that CIFS servers will frequently return inode 
integer values that are greater than 31^2. If you read the PHP documentation for 
these filesystem functions, you will find a disclaimer that these large unsigned 
integer values will break in PHP.

Disable the possibility of really big inode numbers from your CIFS mounts by 
using the "noserverino" mount option.
 [2013-02-18 00:34 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
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change the status of the bug back to "Open". Thank you.
 
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