Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Allow the admin to turn off NFSv4 uid/gid mapping

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 08:33:59AM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The following patches allow the admin to turn off NFSv4 uid/gid mapping
> if mounting using AUTH_SYS security.

Maybe that should be "when a mountpoint allows only AUTH_SYS security"?

(Once we start allowing auth_flavor_len > 1, presumably we don't want to
change mappings depending on which flavor an individual getattr used!)

Also, maybe it's right, but I'm a little weirded about by the dependency
on the auth flavor.

--b.

> 
> Minor changes w.r.t. first revision:
>  - Added documentation in kernel-parameters.txt
>  - Print a warning if an NFSERR_BADOWNER causes us to turn idmapping on again
> 
> Trond Myklebust (4):
>   NFSv4: If the server sends us a numeric uid/gid then accept it
>   NFSv4: Send unmapped uid/gids to the server if the idmapper fails
>   NFSv4: cleanup idmapper functions to take an nfs_server argument
>   NFSv4: Send unmapped uid/gids to the server when using auth_sys
> 
>  Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    8 +++
>  fs/nfs/client.c                     |   16 ++++++
>  fs/nfs/idmap.c                      |   87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c                   |   13 +++++-
>  fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c                    |   18 +++----
>  include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h           |    1 +
>  include/linux/nfs_idmap.h           |    8 ++--
>  7 files changed, 118 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.3.2
> 
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