Re: [PATCH] nfs-utils: add and use nfs_authsys_create

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:05:28 -0500
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> wrote:

> The current mount, umount and showmount code uses
> authunix_create_default to get an auth handle. The one provided by glibc
> returned a truncated list of groups when there were more than 16 groups.
> libtirpc however currently does an abort() in this case, which causes
> the program to crash and dump core.
> 
> nfs-utils just uses these auth handles for the MNT protocol, so the
> group list doesn't make a lot of difference here. Add a new function
> that creates an auth handle with a supplemental gids list that consists
> only of the primary gid. Have nfs-utils use that function anywhere that
> it currently uses authunix_create_default. Also, have the caller
> properly check for a NULL return from that function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

My apologies -- I mistakenly sent out an earlier version of this patch
instead of the latest. I just sent the right version of this patch as
"try #2".

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>