NFSv4.1 Use MDS auth flavor for data server connection

Commit 4edaa308 "NFS: Use "krb5i" to establish NFSv4 state whenever possible"
uses the nfs_client cl_rpcclient for all state management operations, and
will use krb5i or auth_sys with no regard to the mount command authflavor
choice.

The MDS, as any NFSv4.1 mount point, uses the nfs_server rpc client for all
non-state management operations with a different nfs_server for each fsid
encountered traversing the mount point, each with a potentially different
auth flavor.

pNFS data servers are not mounted in the normal sense as there is no associated
nfs_server structure. Data servers can also export multiple fsids, each with
a potentially different auth flavor.

Data servers need to use the same authflavor as the MDS server rpc client for
non-state management operations. Populate a list of rpc clients with the MDS
server rpc client auth flavor for the DS to use.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andy Adamson
2013-09-06 14:14:00 -04:00
committed by Trond Myklebust
parent 4109bb7496
commit 0e20162ed1
4 changed files with 146 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ struct nfs_client {
struct rpc_cred *cl_machine_cred;
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NFS_V4)
struct list_head cl_ds_clients; /* auth flavor data servers */
u64 cl_clientid; /* constant */
nfs4_verifier cl_confirm; /* Clientid verifier */
unsigned long cl_state;