Currently, to persevere global data over multiple mounts,
the root process does not fork when handling an upcall.
Instead on not-forking create a pthread to handle the
upcall since global data can be shared among threads.
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
configure.ac | 3 +++
utils/gssd/Makefile.am | 3 ++-
utils/gssd/gssd.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
utils/gssd/gssd.h | 2 ++
utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c | 30 ------------------------------
utils/gssd/krb5_util.c | 3 +++
6 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 25d2ba4..e0ecd61 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ if test "$enable_gss" = yes; then
dnl Invoked after AC_KERBEROS_V5; AC_LIBRPCSECGSS needs to have KRBLIBS set
AC_LIBRPCSECGSS
+ dnl Check for pthreads
+ AC_LIBPTHREAD
+
dnl librpcsecgss already has a dependency on libgssapi,
dnl but we need to make sure we get the right version
if test "$enable_gss" = yes; then
diff --git a/utils/gssd/Makefile.am b/utils/gssd/Makefile.am
index cb040b3..3f5f59a 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/Makefile.am
+++ b/utils/gssd/Makefile.am
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ gssd_LDADD = \
$(RPCSECGSS_LIBS) \
$(KRBLIBS) \
$(GSSAPI_LIBS) \
- $(LIBTIRPC)
+ $(LIBTIRPC) \
+ $(LIBPTHREAD)
gssd_LDFLAGS = \
$(KRBLDFLAGS)
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd.c b/utils/gssd/gssd.c
index e7cb07f..a480417 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd.c
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd.c
@@ -361,20 +361,48 @@ gssd_destroy_client(struct clnt_info *clp)
static void gssd_scan(void);
+/* For each upcall create a thread, detach from the main process so that
+ * resources are released back into the system without the need for a join.
+ * pthread_yield() is needed to allow the child thread to run right away
+ * and consume the upcall from the file descriptor. otherwise, if the main
+ * thread goes back into libevent code it will trigger another callback as
+ * the file descriptor is still "ready" and not consumed"
+ */
static void
gssd_clnt_gssd_cb(int UNUSED(fd), short UNUSED(which), void *data)
{
struct clnt_info *clp = data;
-
- handle_gssd_upcall(clp);
+ pthread_t th;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = pthread_create(&th, NULL, (void *)handle_gssd_upcall,
+ (void *)clp);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ printerr(0, "ERROR: pthread_create failed: ret %d: %s\n",
+ ret, strerror(errno));
+ return;
+ }
+ pthread_detach(th);
+ pthread_yield();
}
static void
gssd_clnt_krb5_cb(int UNUSED(fd), short UNUSED(which), void *data)
{
struct clnt_info *clp = data;
+ pthread_t th;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = pthread_create(&th, NULL, (void *)handle_krb5_upcall,
+ (void *)clp);
+ if (ret != 0) {
+ printerr(0, "ERROR: pthread_create failed: ret %d: %s\n",
+ ret, strerror(errno));
+ return;
+ }
- handle_krb5_upcall(clp);
+ pthread_detach(th);
+ pthread_yield();
}
static struct clnt_info *
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd.h b/utils/gssd/gssd.h
index c6937c5..8677329 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd.h
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd.h
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <gssapi/gssapi.h>
#include <event.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <pthread.h>
#ifndef GSSD_PIPEFS_DIR
#define GSSD_PIPEFS_DIR "/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs"
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ extern int root_uses_machine_creds;
extern unsigned int context_timeout;
extern unsigned int rpc_timeout;
extern char *preferred_realm;
+extern pthread_mutex_t ple_lock;
struct clnt_info {
TAILQ_ENTRY(clnt_info) list;
diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
index 1ef68d8..616082e 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
+++ b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
@@ -629,36 +629,6 @@ process_krb5_upcall(struct clnt_info *clp, uid_t uid, int fd, char *tgtname,
if (uid != 0 || (uid == 0 && root_uses_machine_creds == 0 &&
service == NULL)) {
- /* already running as uid 0 */
- if (uid == 0)
- goto no_fork;
-
- pid = fork();
- switch(pid) {
- case 0:
- /* Child: fall through to rest of function */
- childpid = getpid();
- unsetenv("KRB5CCNAME");
- printerr(2, "CHILD forked pid %d \n", childpid);
- 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 */
- do {
- pid = wait(&err);
- } while(pid == -1 && errno != -ECHILD);
-
- if (WIFSIGNALED(err))
- printerr(0, "WARNING: forked child was killed"
- "with signal %d\n", WTERMSIG(err));
- return;
- }
-no_fork:
-
auth = krb5_not_machine_creds(clp, uid, tgtname, &downcall_err,
&err, &rpc_clnt);
if (err)
diff --git a/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c b/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c
index 8ef8184..3328696 100644
--- a/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c
+++ b/utils/gssd/krb5_util.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@
/* Global list of principals/cache file names for machine credentials */
struct gssd_k5_kt_princ *gssd_k5_kt_princ_list = NULL;
+pthread_mutex_t ple_lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER;
#ifdef HAVE_SET_ALLOWABLE_ENCTYPES
int limit_to_legacy_enctypes = 0;
@@ -586,10 +587,12 @@ get_ple_by_princ(krb5_context context, krb5_principal princ)
/* Need to serialize list if we ever become multi-threaded! */
+ pthread_mutex_lock(&ple_lock);
ple = find_ple_by_princ(context, princ);
if (ple == NULL) {
ple = new_ple(context, princ);
}
+ pthread_mutex_unlock(&ple_lock);
return ple;
}
--
1.8.3.1
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