bug#63856: >=coreutils-9.2 cp: preserving permissions: Operation not supported when copying from no_root_squash nfs export

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/06/2023 18:29, Peter Robertson wrote:
> I have an nfs export: /mnt/Backup Hostname(no_root_squash,ro,mp)
> It exports this drive, LABEL=Backup    /mnt/Backup
>          btrfs   noatime,compress-force=zstd:99
>
> I have a locally mounted drive, /mnt/Mirror (LABEL=Mirror
> /mnt/Mirror             btrfs   compress-force=zstd:99,noatime,nofail)
>
> I mount the nfs share: mount Hostname:/mnt/Backup /mnt/Backup.
>
> I cp a file from one to the other, cp -av
> /mnt/Backup/snaps/elden/90/info.xml
> /mnt/Mirror/snaps/elden/90/info.xml.
>
> Under coreutils-9.1 I get no error. Under coreutils-9.2 I get cp:
> preserving permissions for ‘/mnt/Mirror/snaps/elden/90/info.xml’:
> Operation not supported
>
> In both cases the resulting copy looks like this:
>
> # ls -l /mnt/*/snaps/elden/90/info.xml
> -rw------- 1 root root 184 Apr 17 10:52 /mnt/Backup/snaps/elden/90/info.xml
> -rw------- 1 root root 184 Apr 17 10:52 /mnt/Mirror/snaps/elden/90/info.xml
>
> I git bisected with gentoo's live ebuild coreutils-9999
> # first bad commit: [28a85116feef1f9a6f31c5ab8cfe50d7aa8d6fc4] build:
> update gnulib submodule to latest
>
> # cp --version
> cp (GNU coreutils) 9.2
> Packaged by Gentoo (9.2-r2 (p0))
> Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
>
> Reproducible: Always

This may be related to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2160675

cheers,
Pádraig