On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 06:09:52PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote: > This patchset implements a new upcall mechanism that uses the sunrpc > client to talk to gssproxy[1], a new userspace daemon that handles gssapi > operations on behalf of other processes on the system. > > The main driver for this new mechanism is to overcome limitations with > the current daemon and upcall. The current code cannot handle tickets > larger than approximatively 2k and cannot handle sending back large user > credential sets to the kernel. > > These patches have been tested against the development version of gssproxy > tagged as kernel_v0.1 in the master repo[2]. > > I have tested walking into mountpoints using tickets artificially pumped > up to 64k and the user is properly authorized, after the accept_se_context > call is performed through the new upcall mechanism and gssproxy. > > The gssproxy has the potential of handling also init_sec_context calls, > but at the moment the only targeted system is nfsd. OK, absent objections from anyone else I'm commiting these for 3.6 and pushing them out soon pending some regression testing. Thanks! --b. > > Simo. > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/gss-proxy/ > [2] http://git.fedorahosted.org/git/?p=gss-proxy.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/tags/kernel_v0.1 > > > NOTE: Included are all changes request and agreed on the list recently, > kmalloc changes and containers compatibility changes. > Pacthes rebased on top of Bruce Field's for-3.5 tree. > > > Simo Sorce (4): > SUNRPC: conditionally return endtime from import_sec_context > SUNRPC: Document a bit RPCGSS handling in the NFS Server > SUNRPC: Add RPC based upcall mechanism for RPCGSS auth > SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for nfsd's RPCGSS authentication. > > Documentation/filesystems/nfs/00-INDEX | 2 + > Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-rpcgss.txt | 65 ++ > include/linux/sunrpc/auth_gss.h | 3 + > include/linux/sunrpc/gss_api.h | 2 + > include/linux/sunrpc/svcauth_gss.h | 2 +- > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/Makefile | 4 +- > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 11 +- > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_krb5_mech.c | 3 + > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_mech_switch.c | 5 +- > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.c | 353 +++++++++ > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.h | 43 ++ > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c | 907 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.h | 269 +++++++ > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 226 ++++++- > 14 files changed, 1875 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/nfs/knfsd-rpcgss.txt > create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.c > create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_upcall.h > create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.c > create mode 100644 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/gss_rpc_xdr.h > > -- > 1.7.7.6 > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
