Re: [PATCH Version 2 0/4] GSSD: Do not fork when UID = 0

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On 09/23/2015 10:30 AM, andros@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Version 2:
> responded to comments.
> - removed some printerr from 0003
> - removed the SIGKILL call from 0004
> 
> Version 1:
> Jeff Layton worked on this patch set with me.
> 
> patch 0001 and 0002 clean up process_krb5_upcall() by moving the two cases into
> helper functions.
> 
> patch 0003 is the heart of this patch set.
> 
> commit f9cac65972da588d5218236de60a7be11247a8aa added the fork to
> process_krb5_upcall so that the child assumes the uid of the principal
> requesting service. This is good for the reasons listed in the commit.
> 
> When machine credentials are used, a gssd_k5_kt_princ entry is added to
> a global list and used by future upcalls to note when valid machine credentials
> have been obtained. When a child process performs this task, the entry to the
> global list is lost upon exit, and all upcalls for machine credentials re-fetch
> a TGT, even when a valid TGT is in the machine kerberos credential cache.
> 
> Since forking is not necessary when the principal has uid=0, solve the
> gssd_k5_kt_princ_list issue by only forking when the uid != 0.
> 
> Please do more testing. Comments welcome.
> 
> -->Andy
> 
> Andy Adamson (4):
>   GSSD: move process_krb5_upcall machine cred case to helper function
>   GSSD: move process_krb5_updcall non machine cred case to helper
>     function
>   GSSD only fork when uid is not zeo
>   GSSD: clean up machine credentials
Committed all four of them... with some minor changes
in the debug statements and bug fixed in the third one... 

steved.

> 
>  utils/gssd/gssd.c      |  11 ++-
>  utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c | 239 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
>  2 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 100 deletions(-)
> 
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