The NFSv4 protocol allows clients to negotiate security protocols on the
fly in the case where an administrator on the server changes the export
settings and/or in the case where we may have a filesystem migration event.
Instead of having the NFS client code cache credentials that are tied to a
particular AUTH method it is therefore preferable to have a generic credential
that can be converted into whatever AUTH is in use by the RPC client when
the read/write/sillyrename/... is put on the wire.
We do this by means of the new "generic" credential, which basically just
caches the minimal information that is needed to look up an RPCSEC_GSS,
AUTH_SYS, or AUTH_NULL credential.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We need the ability to treat 'generic' creds specially, since they want to
bind instances of the auth cred instead of binding themselves.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Add an rpc credential that is not tied to any particular auth mechanism,
but that can be cached by NFS, and later used to look up a cred for
whichever auth mechanism that turns out to be valid when the RPC call is
being made.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The current RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_ROOTCREDS flag only works for AUTH_SYS
authentication, and then only as a special case in the code. This patch
removes the auth_sys special casing, and replaces it with generic code.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits)
Remove commented-out code copied from NFS
NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE
Add wait_for_completion_killable
Add wait_event_killable
Add schedule_timeout_killable
Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir
Add mutex_lock_killable
Use lock_page_killable
Add lock_page_killable
Add fatal_signal_pending
Add TASK_WAKEKILL
exit: Use task_is_*
signal: Use task_is_*
sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL
ptrace: Use task_is_*
power: Use task_is_*
wait: Use TASK_NORMAL
proc/base.c: Use task_is_*
proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT
perfmon: Use task_is_*
...
Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
The sunrpc client exports are not meant to be part of any official kernel
API: they can change at the drop of a hat. Mark them as internal functions
using EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Since every invocation of xdr encode or decode functions takes the BKL now,
there's a lot of redundant lock_kernel/unlock_kernel pairs that we can pull
out into a common function.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I can never remember what the function to register to receive VM pressure
is called. I have to trace down from __alloc_pages() to find it.
It's called "set_shrinker()", and it needs Your Help.
1) Don't hide struct shrinker. It contains no magic.
2) Don't allocate "struct shrinker". It's not helpful.
3) Call them "register_shrinker" and "unregister_shrinker".
4) Call the function "shrink" not "shrinker".
5) Reduce the 17 lines of waffly comments to 13, but document it properly.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We don't need the BKL when wrapping and unwrapping; and experiments by Avishay
Traeger have found that permitting multiple encryption and decryption
operations to proceed in parallel can provide significant performance
improvements.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We should almost always be deferencing the rpc_auth struct by means of the
credential's cr_auth field instead of the rpc_clnt->cl_auth anyway. Fix up
that historical mistake, and remove the macro that propagated it.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The leak only affects the RPCSEC_GSS caches, since they are the only ones
that are dynamically allocated...
Rename the existing rpcauth_free_credcache() to rpcauth_clear_credcache()
in order to better describe its role, then add a new function
rpcauth_destroy_credcache() that actually frees the cache in addition to
clearing it out.
Also move the call to destroy the credcache in gss_destroy() to come before
the rpc upcall pipe is unlinked.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
