Description of problem:

In 4.11, the CDI source pod will send the entire directory using tar (tar -c . ). This also sends the current directory '.'. Then the cdi-upload-pod extracts it using --preserve-permissions and when it extracts the current directory '.', it will try to set the permission on the parent directory.

A simple example of the above:

~~~
[root@dell-r530-40 new]# tar -cvf /tmp/test.tar .
./
./test
./test1

[root@dell-r530-40 new]# chown test.test /root/new/

[root@dell-r530-40 new]# ls -ld /root/new/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 test test 31 Apr 1 08:35 /root/new/

[root@dell-r530-40 new]# tar -xv --preserve-permissions -f /tmp/test.tar
./
./test
./test1

[root@dell-r530-40 new]# ls -ld /root/new/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 31 Apr 1 08:35 /root/new/
~~~

Some storage doesn't seem to like this and it is failing. We don't have tar STDOUT logged in 4.11, but I took the strace of tar extraction and can see this:

~~~
1488141 11:14:58.442184 fchownat(3, ".", 0, 0, 0) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
1488141 11:14:58.442584 write(2, "/usr/bin/tar: ", 14) = 14
1488141 11:14:58.442637 write(2, ".: Cannot change ownership to ui"..., 42) = 42
1488141 11:14:58.442676 write(2, ": Operation not permitted", 25) = 25
1488141 11:14:58.442720 write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
~~~

The customer is using the Trident storage class.

Note that this is changed in 4.12, where it is reading and listing the individual files in the /data/ and sending it using tar.

https://github.com/kubevirt/containerized-data-importer/pull/2410/files#diff-ee284ba07c3d9a93a120236d65096dd843a2f979681004f33a84072e176a15f7L154

The request is to backport the whole fix or part of it so that tar extraction will not fail.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

OpenShift Virtualization 4.11.3

How reproducible:

100% in the customer's environment

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Clone the PVC by creating a DV with the source as PVC.
2. The cloning fails with below error:

~~~
2023-03-21T12:44:26.290384642Z I0321 12:44:26.290318 1 util.go:197] begin untar to /data...
2023-03-21T12:46:58.613756375Z E0321 12:46:58.613691 1 util.go:217] exit status 2
~~~

Tar strace shows EPERM error while it tries to set ownership on the current '.' directory.

Actual results:

EPERM during tar extraction while cloning a PVC.

Expected results:

Cloning should work.

Additional info: