Re: [PATCH] nfsd4: use auth_unix unconditionally on backchannel

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On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 19:09 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> This is a bandaid.
> 
> I have a series of patches that actually implement the correct behavior,
> but that may not quite be ready for 3.4.
> 
> --b.
> 
> commit 2f026867c76171d26f003b211063ff0562097d5e
> Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Mar 28 14:18:16 2012 -0400
> 
>     nfsd4: use auth_unix unconditionally on backchannel
>     
>     This isn't actually correct, but it works with the Linux client, and
>     agrees with the behavior we used to have before commit 80fc015bdfe.

Question: does the Linux client ever send you anything other than
AUTH_SYS credentials for the csa_sec_parms argument in CREATE_SESSION?
Anything other than that would be a bug, since our client doesn't
actually support RPCSEC_GSS in the callback channel.

>     Later patches will implement the spec-mandated behavior (which is to use
>     the security parameters explicitly given by the client in create_session
>     or backchannel_ctl).
>     


-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
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