SUNRPC: Introduce rpc_clone_client_set_auth()

An ULP is supposed to be able to replace a GSS rpc_auth object with
another GSS rpc_auth object using rpcauth_create().  However,
rpcauth_create() in 3.5 reliably fails with -EEXIST in this case.
This is because when gss_create() attempts to create the upcall pipes,
sometimes they are already there.  For example if a pipe FS mount
event occurs, or a previous GSS flavor was in use for this rpc_clnt.

It turns out that's not the only problem here.  While working on a
fix for the above problem, we noticed that replacing an rpc_clnt's
rpc_auth is not safe, since dereferencing the cl_auth field is not
protected in any way.

So we're deprecating the ability of rpcauth_create() to switch an
rpc_clnt's security flavor during normal operation.  Instead, let's
add a fresh API that clones an rpc_clnt and gives the clone a new
flavor before it's used.

This makes immediate use of the new __rpc_clone_client() helper.

This can be used in a similar fashion to rpcauth_create() when a
client is hunting for the correct security flavor.  Instead of
replacing an rpc_clnt's security flavor in a loop, the ULP replaces
the whole rpc_clnt.

To fix the -EEXIST problem, any ULP logic that relies on replacing
an rpc_clnt's rpc_auth with rpcauth_create() must be changed to use
this API instead.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
index 523547ecfee..34206b84d8d 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ struct rpc_clnt	*rpc_bind_new_program(struct rpc_clnt *,
 				const struct rpc_program *, u32);
 void rpc_task_reset_client(struct rpc_task *task, struct rpc_clnt *clnt);
 struct rpc_clnt *rpc_clone_client(struct rpc_clnt *);
+struct rpc_clnt *rpc_clone_client_set_auth(struct rpc_clnt *,
+				rpc_authflavor_t);
 void		rpc_shutdown_client(struct rpc_clnt *);
 void		rpc_release_client(struct rpc_clnt *);
 void		rpc_task_release_client(struct rpc_task *);