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* [PATCH] sunrpc: Add comment defining gssd upcall API keywords
@ 2018-08-20 14:39 Chuck Lever
  2018-08-20 15:55 ` Steve Dickson
  2018-08-20 19:05 ` J. Bruce Fields
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Chuck Lever @ 2018-08-20 14:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bfields; +Cc: linux-nfs, simo

During review, it was found that the target, service, and srchost
keywords are easily conflated. Add an explainer.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
 net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

Hi Bruce-

I've received no objections to this patch. Can you include it in
v4.19 with the other patches I've already submitted?


diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index 1943e11..2460759 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -461,12 +461,28 @@ static int gss_encode_v1_msg(struct gss_upcall_msg *gss_msg,
 	buflen -= len;
 	p += len;
 	gss_msg->msg.len = len;
+
+	/*
+	 * target= is a full service principal that names the remote
+	 * identity that we are authenticating to.
+	 */
 	if (target_name) {
 		len = scnprintf(p, buflen, "target=%s ", target_name);
 		buflen -= len;
 		p += len;
 		gss_msg->msg.len += len;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * gssd uses service= and srchost= to select a matching key from
+	 * the system's keytab to use as the source principal.
+	 *
+	 * service= is the service name part of the source principal,
+	 * or "*" (meaning choose any).
+	 *
+	 * srchost= is the hostname part of the source principal. When
+	 * not provided, gssd uses the local hostname.
+	 */
 	if (service_name) {
 		char *c = strchr(service_name, '@');
 
@@ -482,6 +498,7 @@ static int gss_encode_v1_msg(struct gss_upcall_msg *gss_msg,
 		p += len;
 		gss_msg->msg.len += len;
 	}
+
 	if (mech->gm_upcall_enctypes) {
 		len = scnprintf(p, buflen, "enctypes=%s ",
 				mech->gm_upcall_enctypes);

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