NFS avoid expired credential keys for buffered writes

We must avoid buffering a WRITE that is using a credential key (e.g. a GSS
context key) that is about to expire or has expired.  We currently will
paint ourselves into a corner by returning success to the applciation
for such a buffered WRITE, only to discover that we do not have permission when
we attempt to flush the WRITE (and potentially associated COMMIT) to disk.

Use the RPC layer credential key timeout and expire routines which use a
a watermark, gss_key_expire_timeo. We test the key in nfs_file_write.

If a WRITE is using a credential with a key that will expire within
watermark seconds, flush the inode in nfs_write_end and send only
NFS_FILE_SYNC WRITEs by adding nfs_ctx_key_to_expire to nfs_need_sync_write.
Note that this results in single page NFS_FILE_SYNC WRITEs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>
[Trond: removed a pr_warn_ratelimited() for now]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/write.c b/fs/nfs/write.c
index d37e8ca9ab8..94eb4504731 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/write.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/write.c
@@ -876,6 +876,33 @@ int nfs_flush_incompatible(struct file *file, struct page *page)
 }
 
 /*
+ * Avoid buffered writes when a open context credential's key would
+ * expire soon.
+ *
+ * Returns -EACCES if the key will expire within RPC_KEY_EXPIRE_FAIL.
+ *
+ * Return 0 and set a credential flag which triggers the inode to flush
+ * and performs  NFS_FILE_SYNC writes if the key will expired within
+ * RPC_KEY_EXPIRE_TIMEO.
+ */
+int
+nfs_key_timeout_notify(struct file *filp, struct inode *inode)
+{
+	struct nfs_open_context *ctx = nfs_file_open_context(filp);
+	struct rpc_auth *auth = NFS_SERVER(inode)->client->cl_auth;
+
+	return rpcauth_key_timeout_notify(auth, ctx->cred);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Test if the open context credential key is marked to expire soon.
+ */
+bool nfs_ctx_key_to_expire(struct nfs_open_context *ctx)
+{
+	return rpcauth_cred_key_to_expire(ctx->cred);
+}
+
+/*
  * If the page cache is marked as unsafe or invalid, then we can't rely on
  * the PageUptodate() flag. In this case, we will need to turn off
  * write optimisations that depend on the page contents being correct.