sunrpc/auth: allow lockless (rcu) lookup of credential cache.

The new flag RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_RCU to credential lookup avoids locking,
does not take a reference on the returned credential, and returns
-ECHILD if a simple lookup was not possible.

The returned value can only be used within an rcu_read_lock protected
region.

The main user of this is the new rpc_lookup_cred_nonblock() which
returns a pointer to the current credential which is only rcu-safe (no
ref-count held), and might return -ECHILD if allocation was required.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
This commit is contained in:
NeilBrown
2014-07-14 11:28:20 +10:00
committed by Trond Myklebust
parent d51ac1a8e9
commit bd95608053
4 changed files with 25 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ nul_destroy(struct rpc_auth *auth)
static struct rpc_cred *
nul_lookup_cred(struct rpc_auth *auth, struct auth_cred *acred, int flags)
{
if (flags & RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_RCU)
return &null_cred;
return get_rpccred(&null_cred);
}