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| author |   NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> | 2018-12-03 11:30:31 +1100 |
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| committer |   Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com> | 2018-12-19 13:52:46 -0500 |
| commit | a52458b48af142bcc2b72fe810c0db20cfae7fdd (patch) | |
| tree | cb77d59d5fdf3d50e69500b8cc7cba1c7199272f /lib | |
| parent | NFS: struct nfs_open_dir_context: convert rpc_cred pointer to cred. (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-a52458b48af142bcc2b72fe810c0db20cfae7fdd.tar.xz linux-dev-a52458b48af142bcc2b72fe810c0db20cfae7fdd.zip | |
NFS/NFSD/SUNRPC: replace generic creds with 'struct cred'.
SUNRPC has two sorts of credentials, both of which appear as
"struct rpc_cred".
There are "generic credentials" which are supplied by clients
such as NFS and passed in 'struct rpc_message' to indicate
which user should be used to authorize the request, and there
are low-level credentials such as AUTH_NULL, AUTH_UNIX, AUTH_GSS
which describe the credential to be sent over the wires.
This patch replaces all the generic credentials by 'struct cred'
pointers - the credential structure used throughout Linux.
For machine credentials, there is a special 'struct cred *' pointer
which is statically allocated and recognized where needed as
having a special meaning. A look-up of a low-level cred will
map this to a machine credential.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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