Re: [PATCH] Adding the nfs4_secure_mounts bool

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On Nov 11, 2013, at 13:43, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 
> On 11/11/13 13:25, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
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>> On Nov 11, 2013, at 13:06, Steve Dickson <SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> 
>>> On 09/11/13 18:12, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
>>>> One alternative to the above scheme, which I believe that I’ve 
>>>> suggested before, is to have a permanent entry in rpc_pipefs 
>>>> that rpc.gssd can open and that the kernel can use to detect 
>>>> that it is running. If we make it /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/gssd/clnt00/gssd, 
>>>> then AFAICS we don’t need to change nfs-utils at all, since all newer 
>>>> versions of rpc.gssd will try to open for read anything of the form 
>>>> /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/*/clntXX/gssd...
>>> 
>>> After further review I am going going have to disagree with you on this.
>>> Since all the context is cached on the initial mount the kernel
>> 
>> What context?
> The krb5 blob that the kernel is call up to rpc.gssd to get.. Maybe
> I'm using the wrong terminology???

That’s only the machine cred. User credentials get allocated and freed all the time.

When the server reboots, then all GSS contexts need to be re-established, which can be a lot of call_usermodehelper() upcalls; that’s one of the reasons why we decided in favour of a gssd daemon in the first place.

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