Fix copy module file perms with remote_src (#69993)

When using 'remote_src: yes' and 'mode: preserve', the code handling
the file modes has to be handled on the remote node because it's
the one that has access to the source files. This means that the
copy module itself must handle this, rather than the copy action
plugin (which is where all that logic exists). The copy module
handles this when we copy a single file over. But when it is a
directory as the src parameter value, the mode of the files
beneath it are not considered. Subdirectories are copied with
shutil.copytree() which will preserve permissions automatically.
Individual files are copied with shutil.copyfile() which does NOT
preserve permissions. We need to add some calls to shutil.copymode()
to correct that.

Note: This *always* retains individial file permissions. Specifying
a 'mode' other than 'preserve' when giving a source directory for
the 'src' param does not make sense so will be ignored in that case
only.

Fixes #69783

* Add changelog and test

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py b/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
index add01b056d..7f7844a217 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/copy.py
@@ -395,6 +395,8 @@ def chown_recursive(path, module):
 
 
 def copy_diff_files(src, dest, module):
+    """Copy files that are different between `src` directory and `dest` directory."""
+
     changed = False
     owner = module.params['owner']
     group = module.params['group']
@@ -413,6 +415,7 @@ def copy_diff_files(src, dest, module):
                 os.symlink(linkto, b_dest_item_path)
             else:
                 shutil.copyfile(b_src_item_path, b_dest_item_path)
+                shutil.copymode(b_src_item_path, b_dest_item_path)
 
             if owner is not None:
                 module.set_owner_if_different(b_dest_item_path, owner, False)
@@ -423,6 +426,8 @@ def copy_diff_files(src, dest, module):
 
 
 def copy_left_only(src, dest, module):
+    """Copy files that exist in `src` directory only to the `dest` directory."""
+
     changed = False
     owner = module.params['owner']
     group = module.params['group']
@@ -458,6 +463,8 @@ def copy_left_only(src, dest, module):
 
             if not os.path.islink(b_src_item_path) and os.path.isfile(b_src_item_path):
                 shutil.copyfile(b_src_item_path, b_dest_item_path)
+                shutil.copymode(b_src_item_path, b_dest_item_path)
+
                 if owner is not None:
                     module.set_owner_if_different(b_dest_item_path, owner, False)
                 if group is not None:
@@ -718,6 +725,7 @@ def main():
     else:
         changed = False
 
+    # If neither have checksums, both src and dest are directories.
     if checksum_src is None and checksum_dest is None:
         if remote_src and os.path.isdir(module.params['src']):
             b_src = to_bytes(module.params['src'], errors='surrogate_or_strict')