The first of these patches together provide secure client-side RxRPC connectivity as a Linux kernel socket family. Only the RxRPC transport/session side is supplied - the presentation side (marshalling the data) is left to the client. Copies of the patches can be found here: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/series http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/01-crypto-kernel-buff.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/02-move-skb-generic.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/03-timers.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/04-keys.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/05-af_rxrpc.diff Further patches make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC and delete the old RxRPC implementation: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/06-afs-cleanup.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/07-af_rxrpc-kernel.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/08-af_rxrpc-afs.diff http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/09-af_rxrpc-delete-old.diff The userspace access methods make use of the control data passed to/by sendmsg() and recvmsg(). See the three simple test programs: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/klog.c http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/rxrpc.c http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/listen.c TODO: (*) Make certain parameters (such as connection timeouts) userspace configurable. (*) Make userspace utilities use it; librxrpc. (*) Userspace documentation. (*) KerberosV security. Changes: (*) SOCK_RPC has been removed. SOCK_DGRAM is now used instead. (*) I've add a facility whereby calls can be made to destinations other than the connect() address of a client socket by making use of msg_name in the msghdr struct when using sendmsg() to send the first data packet of a call. Indeed, a client socket need not be connected before being used so. (*) I've also added a facility whereby client calls may also be made on server sockets, again by using msg_name in the msghdr struct. In such a case, the server's local transport endpoint is used. (*) I've made the write buffer space check available to various callers (sk_write_space) and implemented poll support. (*) Rewrote rxrpc_recvmsg(). It now concatenates adjacent data messages from the same call when delivering them. (*) Updated the documentation to include notes on recvmsg, cover control messages and cover SOL_RXRPC-level socket options. (*) Provided an in-kernel interface to give in-kernel utilities easier access to the facility. (*) Made fs/afs/ use it. (*) Deleted the old contents of net/rxrpc/. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
