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* [PATCH 00/16] AF_RXRPC socket family and AFS rewrite [try #4]
@ 2007-04-25 15:48 David Howells
  2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 01/16] AF_RXRPC: Move generic skbuff stuff from XFRM code to generic code " David Howells
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From: David Howells @ 2007-04-25 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: torvalds, akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel, netdev, dhowells


The first of these patches together provide secure client-side RxRPC
connectivity as a Linux kernel socket family.  Only the RxRPC transport/session
side is supplied - the presentation side (marshalling the data) is left to the
client.  Copies of the patches can be found here:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/series
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/01-move-skb-generic.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/02-cancel_delayed_work.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/03-keys.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/04-timer-exports.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/05-af_rxrpc.diff

Further patches make the in-kernel AFS filesystem use AF_RXRPC and delete the
old RxRPC implementation:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/06-afs-cleanup.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/07-af_rxrpc-kernel.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/08-af_rxrpc-afs.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/09-af_rxrpc-delete-old.diff

And then the rest of the patches extend AFS to provide automatic unmounting of
automount trees, security support and directory-level write support (create,
mkdir, etc.):

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/10-afs-multimount.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/11-afs-security.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/12-afs-doc.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/13-netlink-support-MSG_TRUNC.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/14-afs-get-capabilities.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/15-afs-initcallbackstate3.diff
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/16-afs-dir-write-support.diff

Note that file-level write support is not yet complete and so is not included
in this patch set.


The userspace access methods make use of the control data passed to/by
sendmsg() and recvmsg().  See the three simple test programs:

	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/klog.c
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/rxrpc.c
	http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/listen.c

The klog program is provided to go and get a Kerberos IV key from the AFS
kaserver.  Currently it must be edited before compiling to note the right
server IP address and the appropriate credentials.

These programs can be compiled by:

	make klog rxrpc listen CFLAGS="-Wall -g" LDLIBS="-lcrypto -lcrypt -lkrb4 -lkeyutils"

Then a ticket can be obtained by:

	./klog

If a security key is acquired in this way, then all subsequent AFS operations -
including VL lookups and mounts - performed with that session keyring will be
authenticated using that key.  The key can be viewed like so:

	[root@andromeda ~]# keyctl show
	Session Keyring
	       -3 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses.3268
		2 --alswrv      0     0   \_ keyring: _uid.0
	111416553 --als--v      0     0   \_ rxrpc: afs@CAMBRIDGE.REDHAT.COM

TODO:

 (*) Make certain parameters (such as connection timeouts) userspace
     configurable.

 (*) Make userspace utilities use it; librxrpc.

 (*) Userspace documentation.

 (*) KerberosV security.

Changes:

 (*) SOCK_RPC has been removed.  SOCK_DGRAM is now used instead.

 (*) I've add a facility whereby calls can be made to destinations other than
     the connect() address of a client socket by making use of msg_name in the
     msghdr struct when using sendmsg() to send the first data packet of a
     call.  Indeed, a client socket need not be connected before being used
     so.

 (*) I've also added a facility whereby client calls may also be made on
     server sockets, again by using msg_name in the msghdr struct.  In such a
     case, the server's local transport endpoint is used.

 (*) I've made the write buffer space check available to various callers
     (sk_write_space) and implemented poll support.

 (*) Rewrote rxrpc_recvmsg().  It now concatenates adjacent data messages from
     the same call when delivering them.

 (*) Updated the documentation to include notes on recvmsg, cover control
     messages and cover SOL_RXRPC-level socket options.

 (*) Provided an in-kernel interface to give in-kernel utilities easier access
     to the facility.

 (*) Made fs/afs/ use it.

 (*) Deleted the old contents of net/rxrpc/.

 (*) Use the scatterlist interface to the crypto API for now.  The patch that
     added the direct access interface conflicts with patches Herbert Xu is
     producing, so I've dropped it for the moment.

 (*) Moved a bug fix to make secure connection reuse work from the
     af_rxrpc-kernel patch to the af_rxrpc main patch.

 (*) Make RxRPC use its own private work queues rather than keventd's to avoid
     deadlocks when AFS tries to use keventd too.  This also puts encryption
     in the private work queue rather than keventd's queue as that might take
     a relatively long time to process.

 (*) Shorten the dead call timeout to 2 seconds.  Without this, each completed
     call sits around eating up resources for 10 seconds.  The calls need to
     hang around for a little while in case duplicate packets appear, but 10
     seconds is excessive.

 (*) Decrement the number of available calls on a connection when a new call is
     allocated for a connection that doesn't have any calls in progress.

 (*) Rename header files with uppercase names to lowercase names.

 (*) Make sure include/keys/rxrpc-type.h is included.

David

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2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 02/16] cancel_delayed_work: use del_timer() instead of del_timer_sync() " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 03/16] AF_RXRPC: Key facility changes for AF_RXRPC " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 04/16] AF_RXRPC: Make it possible to merely try to cancel timers from a module " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 07/16] AF_RXRPC: Add an interface to the AF_RXRPC module for the AFS filesystem to use " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 10/16] AFS: Handle multiple mounts of an AFS superblock correctly " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 11/16] AFS: Add security support " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:49 ` [PATCH 12/16] AFS: Update the AFS fs documentation " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:50 ` [PATCH 13/16] commit ad495d7b6cfcd1bc2eaf06c42699be0bb5d84234 " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:50 ` [PATCH 14/16] AFS: Add support for the CB.GetCapabilities operation " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:50 ` [PATCH 15/16] AFS: Implement the CB.InitCallBackState3 " David Howells
2007-04-25 15:50 ` [PATCH 16/16] AFS: Add "directory write" support " David Howells

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