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* [PATCH v1] SUNRPC: offer RPC-with-TLS only on services that implement it
@ 2026-09-25 15:13 Chuck Lever
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From: Chuck Lever @ 2026-09-25 15:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: NeilBrown, Jeff Layton, Olga Kornievskaia, Dai Ngo, Tom Talpey; +Cc: linux-nfs

svcauth_tls_accept() offers STARTTLS on every service whose
transport class has a handshake method. The NFSv4.0 callback
service listens on TCP, so an NFS server that sends CB_NULL with
AUTH_TLS gets a STARTTLS reply. The callback thread then blocks in
svc_tcp_handshake() for up to SVC_HANDSHAKE_TO, waiting for a
handshake the NFS client is not configured to complete. The
callback service runs a small thread pool shared by every NFSv4.0
server in the network namespace, so a malicious server can stall
callbacks from other servers by repeating the probe on each
reconnect. lockd has the same exposure. It runs a single thread on
every NFS client host to receive NLM_GRANTED callbacks and does not
support RPC-with-TLS.

Add a per-service flag that a service sets when it implements
RPC-with-TLS, and have svcauth_tls_accept() answer an AUTH_TLS
probe on any other service with a plain AUTH_NULL verifier, as
RFC 9289 Section 4.1 prescribes for a server that does not support
TLS. NFSD is the only service that sets the flag.

Fixes: 74aaf96feaca ("SUNRPC: Teach server to recognize RPC_AUTH_TLS")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c           | 1 +
 include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h | 2 ++
 net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
index ffc58a76c1fc..3705dba837e7 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
@@ -680,6 +680,7 @@ int nfsd_create_serv(struct net *net, bool no_rpcbind)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 	serv->sv_reply_sent = nfsd_cache_reply_sent;
+	serv->sv_tls = true;
 
 	/* svc_bind() reads this, so set it first. */
 	serv->sv_no_rpcbind = no_rpcbind;
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
index bdff8ccb92c7..5af08e326146 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc.h
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ struct svc_serv {
 	bool			sv_is_pooled;	/* is this a pooled service? */
 	/* Caller registers with rpcbind itself. Set before svc_bind(). */
 	bool			sv_no_rpcbind;
+	/* Service implements RPC-with-TLS; offer STARTTLS to AUTH_TLS probes. */
+	bool			sv_tls;
 	struct svc_pool *	sv_pools;	/* array of thread pools */
 	int			(*sv_threadfn)(void *data);
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c b/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
index 1e5a421ef2cb..ad8a73653e42 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,7 @@ svcauth_tls_accept(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	if (cred->cr_group_info == NULL)
 		return SVC_CLOSE;
 
-	if (xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_handshake) {
+	if (xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_handshake && rqstp->rq_server->sv_tls) {
 		p = xdr_reserve_space(&rqstp->rq_res_stream, XDR_UNIT * 2 + 8);
 		if (!p)
 			return SVC_CLOSE;
-- 
2.54.0


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