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authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>2008-08-18 19:34:16 -0400
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-09-29 18:13:38 -0400
commita26cfad6e0a308a2c68df1f1ef50aabd48b17e6d (patch)
tree9d200a635720bde73b66fd96e4db9e7ff9be3af7 /fs
parent7252d575ab0e8771269a3d245c36a05ace5152bd (diff)
SUNRPC: Support IPv6 when registering kernel RPC services
In order to advertise NFS-related services on IPv6 interfaces via rpcbind, the kernel RPC server implementation must use rpcb_v4_register() instead of rpcb_register(). A new kernel build option allows distributions to use the legacy v2 call until they integrate an appropriate user-space rpcbind daemon that can support IPv6 RPC services. I tried adding some automatic logic to fall back if registering with a v4 protocol request failed, but there are too many corner cases. So I just made it a compile-time switch that distributions can throw when they've replaced portmapper with rpcbind. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index c6ae4d4842e..ed57a5a3725 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -1773,6 +1773,28 @@ config SUNRPC_XPRT_RDMA
If unsure, say N.
+config SUNRPC_REGISTER_V4
+ bool "Register local RPC services via rpcbind v4 (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL
+ default n
+ help
+ Sun added support for registering RPC services at an IPv6
+ address by creating two new versions of the rpcbind protocol
+ (RFC 1833).
+
+ This option enables support in the kernel RPC server for
+ registering kernel RPC services via version 4 of the rpcbind
+ protocol. If you enable this option, you must run a portmapper
+ daemon that supports rpcbind protocol version 4.
+
+ Serving NFS over IPv6 from knfsd (the kernel's NFS server)
+ requires that you enable this option and use a portmapper that
+ supports rpcbind version 4.
+
+ If unsure, say N to get traditional behavior (register kernel
+ RPC services using only rpcbind version 2). Distributions
+ using the legacy Linux portmapper daemon must say N here.
+
config RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5
tristate "Secure RPC: Kerberos V mechanism (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on SUNRPC && EXPERIMENTAL