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, 22 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index afbeefab660..cdc7564b451 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -548,6 +548,28 @@ struct rpc_clnt *rpc_clone_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_clone_client);
 
+/**
+ * rpc_clone_client_set_auth - Clone an RPC client structure and set its auth
+ *
+ * @clnt: RPC client whose parameters are copied
+ * @auth: security flavor for new client
+ *
+ * Returns a fresh RPC client or an ERR_PTR.
+ */
+struct rpc_clnt *
+rpc_clone_client_set_auth(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, rpc_authflavor_t flavor)
+{
+	struct rpc_create_args args = {
+		.program	= clnt->cl_program,
+		.prognumber	= clnt->cl_prog,
+		.version	= clnt->cl_vers,
+		.authflavor	= flavor,
+		.client_name	= clnt->cl_principal,
+	};
+	return __rpc_clone_client(&args, clnt);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_clone_client_set_auth);
+
 /*
  * Kill all tasks for the given client.
  * XXX: kill their descendants as well?