From: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
To: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] SUNRPC: Fix RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_ROOTCREDS
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:30:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D980CC.3020909@citi.umich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205435968.13453.27.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 15:11 -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
>
>> Trond,
>>
>> We were thinking of using RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_ROOTCREDS flag to acquire
>> machine creds for authenticated callback..
>>
>
> I'd strongly suggest using a different flag for that purpose. The
> function of RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_ROOTCREDS _today_ is to allow a future
> swap-over-nfs to use root credentials when paging out memory.
>
> That is not the same as machine creds...
>
I apologize I forgot that I introduced a new flag instead,
RPCAUTH_USE_MACH_CRED. It should fit with the other flags such as
RPCAUTH_CRED_NEW in auth.h.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <20080313174806.13840.90325.stgit-KPEdlmqt5P7XOazzY/2fV4TcuzvYVacciM950cveMlzk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 1/6] SUNRPC: Fix a bug in rpcauth_lookup_credcache() Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20080313174806.13840.26367.stgit-KPEdlmqt5P7XOazzY/2fV4TcuzvYVacciM950cveMlzk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-28 15:12 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-03-28 19:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-03-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 2/6] SUNRPC: Fix RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_ROOTCREDS Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20080313174807.13840.38440.stgit-KPEdlmqt5P7XOazzY/2fV4TcuzvYVacciM950cveMlzk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-13 19:11 ` Olga Kornievskaia
2008-03-13 19:19 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1205435968.13453.27.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-13 19:25 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1205436339.13453.35.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-13 19:43 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-03-13 20:36 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <1205440566.15354.21.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-13 20:42 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-03-13 20:45 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-03-13 19:30 ` Olga Kornievskaia [this message]
2008-03-13 19:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-03-28 15:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-03-28 17:05 ` Chuck Lever
2008-03-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 4/6] SUNRPC: Add a generic RPC credential Trond Myklebust
[not found] ` <20080313174809.13840.50790.stgit-KPEdlmqt5P7XOazzY/2fV4TcuzvYVacciM950cveMlzk1uMJSBkQmQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-03-28 15:35 ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-03-28 19:15 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-03-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 3/6] SUNRPC: Clean up rpcauth_bindcred() Trond Myklebust
2008-03-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 5/6] SUNRPC: Add an rpc_credop callback for binding a credential to an rpc_task Trond Myklebust
2008-03-13 17:48 ` [PATCH 6/6] SUNRPC: Add a helper rpcauth_lookup_generic_cred() Trond Myklebust
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