In order to handle KEYRING: caches, we need to be able to switch the real UID of the process to the designated one, but that opens the door to allowing gssd to be killed or reniced during the window where we've switched credentials. Change gssd to fork before trying to handle each upcall. The child will do the work to establish the context and the parent task will just wait for it to exit. It's still possible for the child to be killed or reniced, but that would only affect a single upcall instead of the entire daemon. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c index e58c341..fd258f7 100644 --- a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c +++ b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c @@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ #include <errno.h> #include <gssapi/gssapi.h> #include <netdb.h> +#include <sys/types.h> +#include <sys/wait.h> #include "gssd.h" #include "err_util.h" @@ -982,6 +984,23 @@ process_krb5_upcall(struct clnt_info *clp, uid_t uid, int fd, char *tgtname, int err, downcall_err = -EACCES; gss_cred_id_t gss_cred; OM_uint32 maj_stat, min_stat, lifetime_rec; + pid_t pid; + + pid = fork(); + switch(pid) { + case 0: + /* Child: fall through to rest of function */ + break; + case -1: + /* fork() failed! */ + printerr(0, "WARNING: unable to fork() to handle upcall: %s\n", + strerror(errno)); + return; + default: + /* Parent: just wait on child to exit and return */ + wait(&err); + return; + } printerr(1, "handling krb5 upcall (%s)\n", clp->dirname); @@ -1121,7 +1140,7 @@ out: AUTH_DESTROY(auth); if (rpc_clnt) clnt_destroy(rpc_clnt); - return; + exit(0); out_return_error: do_error_downcall(fd, uid, downcall_err); -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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