When using rpc.gssd to secure NFSv3 FS using krb5, the following errors
can happen as a result of network congestion.
"rpc.gssd WARNING: can't create tcp rpc_clnt to server ... : RPC: Remote
system error - Connection timed out"
we had a successful reproducer of the problem which we tested using this
patch by starting rpc.gssd with "-T 60" as the option which solved the
problem. reproducer steps were to throttle the network using tc command
and then in a never ending loop mount the share, then write some data in
the file on the share and unmount it. keep a delay of 5 sec between the
iteration of each loop.
CC: Christian Horn <chorn@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by:
---
utils/gssd/gssd.c | 6 +++++-
utils/gssd/gssd.h | 1 +
utils/gssd/gssd.man | 8 ++++++++
utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c | 6 +++++-
4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd.c b/utils/gssd/gssd.c
index 611ef1a..6b8b863 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd.c
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ char *ccachesearch[GSSD_MAX_CCACHE_SEARCH + 1];
int use_memcache = 0;
int root_uses_machine_creds = 1;
unsigned int context_timeout = 0;
+unsigned int rpc_timeout = 5;
char *preferred_realm = NULL;
int pipefds[2] = { -1, -1 };
@@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
char *progname;
memset(ccachesearch, 0, sizeof(ccachesearch));
- while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "DfvrlmnMp:k:d:t:R:")) != -1) {
+ while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "DfvrlmnMp:k:d:t:T:R:")) != -1) {
switch (opt) {
case 'f':
fg = 1;
@@ -143,6 +144,9 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
case 't':
context_timeout = atoi(optarg);
break;
+ case 'T':
+ rpc_timeout = atoi(optarg);
+ break;
case 'R':
preferred_realm = strdup(optarg);
break;
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd.h b/utils/gssd/gssd.h
index 56a18d6..48f4ad8 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd.h
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd.h
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ extern char *ccachesearch[];
extern int use_memcache;
extern int root_uses_machine_creds;
extern unsigned int context_timeout;
+extern unsigned int rpc_timeout;
extern char *preferred_realm;
extern int pipefds[2];
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd.man b/utils/gssd/gssd.man
index ac13fd4..ea58fa0 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd.man
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd.man
@@ -289,6 +289,14 @@ new kernel contexts to be negotiated after
seconds, which allows changing Kerberos tickets and identities frequently.
The default is no explicit timeout, which means the kernel context will live
the lifetime of the Kerberos service ticket used in its creation.
+.TP
+.B -T timeout
+Timeout, in seconds, to create an RPC connection with a server while
+establishing an authenticated gss context for a user.
+The default timeout is set to 5 seconds.
+If you get messages like "WARNING: can't create tcp rpc_clnt to server
+%servername% for user with uid %uid%: RPC: Remote system error -
+Connection timed out", you should consider an increase of this timeout.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR rpc.svcgssd (8),
.BR kerberos (1),
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
index 40ff188..1398cd6 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ create_auth_rpc_client(struct clnt_info *clp,
OM_uint32 min_stat;
char rpc_errmsg[1024];
int protocol;
- struct timeval timeout = {5, 0};
+ struct timeval timeout;
struct sockaddr *addr = (struct sockaddr *) &clp->addr;
socklen_t salen;
@@ -918,6 +918,10 @@ create_auth_rpc_client(struct clnt_info *clp,
if (!populate_port(addr, salen, clp->prog, clp->vers, protocol))
goto out_fail;
+ /* set the timeout according to the requested valued */
+ timeout.tv_sec = (long) rpc_timeout;
+ timeout.tv_usec = (long) 0;
+
rpc_clnt = nfs_get_rpcclient(addr, salen, protocol, clp->prog,
clp->vers, &timeout);
if (!rpc_clnt) {
--
1.9.3
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