Re: [PATCH 00/12] make rpc_pipefs be mountable multiple times

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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:32:15AM +0200, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 09:46:44AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > By the way, was there ever a resolution to Trond's question?:
> > 
> > 	http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=128655758712817&w=2
> > 
> > 	"The keyring upcalls are currently initiated through the same
> > 	mechanism as module_request and therefore get started with the
> > 	init_nsproxy namespace. We'd really like them to run inside the
> > 	same container as the process.  As part of the same problem,
> > 	there is the issue of what to do with the dns resolver and
> > 	Bryan's new keyring based idmapper code."
> 
> I'm not sure that I understand the problem correctly.
> 
> Currently, idmap uses dentry taken from client's cl_rpcclient->cl_path
> (see nfs_idmap_new()). cl_rpcclient (and cl_path) is initialized with
> rpcmount resolved against mount namespace of mount process (see
> nfs_create_rpc_client()).
> I assume it's correct.

There's actually two separate sets of idmapper code; look at
fs/nfs/idmapper.c, the first part of the file (between #ifdef
CONFIG_NFS_USE_NEW_IDMAPPER and #else) is idmapping code that uses
request_key().  The code you're looking at (including nfs_idmap_new())
is later in the file, and deprecated.

--b.

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