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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2012-09-14 17:24:02 -0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2012-10-01 15:33:33 -0700
commitba9b584c1dc37851d9c6ca6d0d2ccba55d9aad04 (patch)
treed74fa5a04f928d5c508594f285381b41bfe4ac3c /fs/nfs/client.c
parent1b63a75180c6c65c71655c250a4e6b578ba7d1c0 (diff)
downloadlinux-ba9b584c1dc37851d9c6ca6d0d2ccba55d9aad04.tar.bz2
SUNRPC: Introduce rpc_clone_client_set_auth()
An ULP is supposed to be able to replace a GSS rpc_auth object with another GSS rpc_auth object using rpcauth_create(). However, rpcauth_create() in 3.5 reliably fails with -EEXIST in this case. This is because when gss_create() attempts to create the upcall pipes, sometimes they are already there. For example if a pipe FS mount event occurs, or a previous GSS flavor was in use for this rpc_clnt. It turns out that's not the only problem here. While working on a fix for the above problem, we noticed that replacing an rpc_clnt's rpc_auth is not safe, since dereferencing the cl_auth field is not protected in any way. So we're deprecating the ability of rpcauth_create() to switch an rpc_clnt's security flavor during normal operation. Instead, let's add a fresh API that clones an rpc_clnt and gives the clone a new flavor before it's used. This makes immediate use of the new __rpc_clone_client() helper. This can be used in a similar fashion to rpcauth_create() when a client is hunting for the correct security flavor. Instead of replacing an rpc_clnt's security flavor in a loop, the ULP replaces the whole rpc_clnt. To fix the -EEXIST problem, any ULP logic that relies on replacing an rpc_clnt's rpc_auth with rpcauth_create() must be changed to use this API instead. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfs/client.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfs/client.c13
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
index 99694442b93f..143149db3440 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -668,7 +668,8 @@ int nfs_init_server_rpcclient(struct nfs_server *server,
{
struct nfs_client *clp = server->nfs_client;
- server->client = rpc_clone_client(clp->cl_rpcclient);
+ server->client = rpc_clone_client_set_auth(clp->cl_rpcclient,
+ pseudoflavour);
if (IS_ERR(server->client)) {
dprintk("%s: couldn't create rpc_client!\n", __func__);
return PTR_ERR(server->client);
@@ -678,16 +679,6 @@ int nfs_init_server_rpcclient(struct nfs_server *server,
timeo,
sizeof(server->client->cl_timeout_default));
server->client->cl_timeout = &server->client->cl_timeout_default;
-
- if (pseudoflavour != clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_auth->au_flavor) {
- struct rpc_auth *auth;
-
- auth = rpcauth_create(pseudoflavour, server->client);
- if (IS_ERR(auth)) {
- dprintk("%s: couldn't create credcache!\n", __func__);
- return PTR_ERR(auth);
- }
- }
server->client->cl_softrtry = 0;
if (server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_SOFT)
server->client->cl_softrtry = 1;