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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2018-12-03 11:30:30 +1100
committerAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>2018-12-19 13:52:45 -0500
commit1de7eea92946d7b581a8cd26084410913c80e594 (patch)
tree24f83b50f58976dbad4025bae814daebb6029657 /net/sunrpc/sched.c
parenta68a72e135ef55bce136a0b604413fd6b0f6d3fc (diff)
SUNRPC: add side channel to use non-generic cred for rpc call.
The credential passed in rpc_message.rpc_cred is always a generic credential except in one instance. When gss_destroying_context() calls rpc_call_null(), it passes a specific credential that it needs to destroy. In this case the RPC acts *on* the credential rather than being authorized by it. This special case deserves explicit support and providing that will mean that rpc_message.rpc_cred is *always* generic, allowing some optimizations. So add "tk_op_cred" to rpc_task and "rpc_op_cred" to the setup data. Use this to pass the cred down from rpc_call_null(), and have rpcauth_bindcred() notice it and bind it in place. Credit to kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> for finding a bug in earlier version of this patch. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/sched.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/sched.c b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
index 57ca5bead1cb..c9f65037a6ad 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/sched.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/sched.c
@@ -997,6 +997,8 @@ static void rpc_init_task(struct rpc_task *task, const struct rpc_task_setup *ta
task->tk_xprt = xprt_get(task_setup_data->rpc_xprt);
+ task->tk_op_cred = get_rpccred(task_setup_data->rpc_op_cred);
+
if (task->tk_ops->rpc_call_prepare != NULL)
task->tk_action = rpc_prepare_task;
@@ -1054,6 +1056,7 @@ static void rpc_free_task(struct rpc_task *task)
{
unsigned short tk_flags = task->tk_flags;
+ put_rpccred(task->tk_op_cred);
rpc_release_calldata(task->tk_ops, task->tk_calldata);
if (tk_flags & RPC_TASK_DYNAMIC) {