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2017-06-07rxrpc: Provide a cmsg to specify the amount of Tx data for a callDavid Howells1-0/+1
Provide a control message that can be specified on the first sendmsg() of a client call or the first sendmsg() of a service response to indicate the total length of the data to be transmitted for that call. Currently, because the length of the payload of an encrypted DATA packet is encrypted in front of the data, the packet cannot be encrypted until we know how much data it will hold. By specifying the length at the beginning of the transmit phase, each DATA packet length can be set before we start loading data from userspace (where several sendmsg() calls may contribute to a particular packet). An error will be returned if too little or too much data is presented in the Tx phase. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2017-06-07rxrpc: Provide a getsockopt call to query what cmsgs types are supportedDavid Howells1-10/+14
Provide a getsockopt() call that can query what cmsg types are supported by AF_RXRPC.
2017-06-05rxrpc: Add service upgrade support for client connectionsDavid Howells1-0/+1
Make it possible for a client to use AuriStor's service upgrade facility. The client does this by adding an RXRPC_UPGRADE_SERVICE control message to the first sendmsg() of a call. This takes no parameters. When recvmsg() starts returning data from the call, the service ID field in the returned msg_name will reflect the result of the upgrade attempt. If the upgrade was ignored, srx_service will match what was set in the sendmsg(); if the upgrade happened the srx_service will be altered to indicate the service the server upgraded to. Note that: (1) The choice of upgrade service is up to the server (2) Further client calls to the same server that would share a connection are blocked if an upgrade probe is in progress. (3) This should only be used to probe the service. Clients should then use the returned service ID in all subsequent communications with that server (and not set the upgrade). Note that the kernel will not retain this information should the connection expire from its cache. (4) If a server that supports upgrading is replaced by one that doesn't, whilst a connection is live, and if the replacement is running, say, OpenAFS 1.6.4 or older or an older IBM AFS, then the replacement server will not respond to packets sent to the upgraded connection. At this point, calls will time out and the server must be reprobed. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2017-06-05rxrpc: Implement service upgradeDavid Howells1-0/+1
Implement AuriStor's service upgrade facility. There are three problems that this is meant to deal with: (1) Various of the standard AFS RPC calls have IPv4 addresses in their requests and/or replies - but there's no room for including IPv6 addresses. (2) Definition of IPv6-specific RPC operations in the standard operation sets has not yet been achieved. (3) One could envision the creation a new service on the same port that as the original service. The new service could implement improved operations - and the client could try this first, falling back to the original service if it's not there. Unfortunately, certain servers ignore packets addressed to a service they don't implement and don't respond in any way - not even with an ABORT. This means that the client must then wait for the call timeout to occur. What service upgrade does is to see if the connection is marked as being 'upgradeable' and if so, change the service ID in the server and thus the request and reply formats. Note that the upgrade isn't mandatory - a server that supports only the original call set will ignore the upgrade request. In the protocol, the procedure is then as follows: (1) To request an upgrade, the first DATA packet in a new connection must have the userStatus set to 1 (this is normally 0). The userStatus value is normally ignored by the server. (2) If the server doesn't support upgrading, the reply packets will contain the same service ID as for the first request packet. (3) If the server does support upgrading, all future reply packets on that connection will contain the new service ID and the new service ID will be applied to *all* further calls on that connection as well. (4) The RPC op used to probe the upgrade must take the same request data as the shadow call in the upgrade set (but may return a different reply). GetCapability RPC ops were added to all standard sets for just this purpose. Ops where the request formats differ cannot be used for probing. (5) The client must wait for completion of the probe before sending any further RPC ops to the same destination. It should then use the service ID that recvmsg() reported back in all future calls. (6) The shadow service must have call definitions for all the operation IDs defined by the original service. To support service upgrading, a server should: (1) Call bind() twice on its AF_RXRPC socket before calling listen(). Each bind() should supply a different service ID, but the transport addresses must be the same. This allows the server to receive requests with either service ID. (2) Enable automatic upgrading by calling setsockopt(), specifying RXRPC_UPGRADEABLE_SERVICE and passing in a two-member array of unsigned shorts as the argument: unsigned short optval[2]; This specifies a pair of service IDs. They must be different and must match the service IDs bound to the socket. Member 0 is the service ID to upgrade from and member 1 is the service ID to upgrade to. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2016-06-22rxrpc: Fix exclusive connection handlingDavid Howells1-1/+2
"Exclusive connections" are meant to be used for a single client call and then scrapped. The idea is to limit the use of the negotiated security context. The current code, however, isn't doing this: it is instead restricting the socket to a single virtual connection and doing all the calls over that. This is changed such that the socket no longer maintains a special virtual connection over which it will do all the calls, but rather gets a new one each time a new exclusive call is made. Further, using a socket option for this is a poor choice. It should be done on sendmsg with a control message marker instead so that calls can be marked exclusive individually. To that end, add RXRPC_EXCLUSIVE_CALL which, if passed to sendmsg() as a control message element, will cause the call to be done on an single-use connection. The socket option (RXRPC_EXCLUSIVE_CONNECTION) still exists and, if set, will override any lack of RXRPC_EXCLUSIVE_CALL being specified so that programs using the setsockopt() will appear to work the same. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2016-06-09rxrpc: Simplify connect() implementation and simplify sendmsg() opDavid Howells1-8/+10
Simplify the RxRPC connect() implementation. It will just note the destination address it is given, and if a sendmsg() comes along with no address, this will be assigned as the address. No transport struct will be held internally, which will allow us to remove this later. Simplify sendmsg() also. Whilst a call is active, userspace refers to it by a private unique user ID specified in a control message. When sendmsg() sees a user ID that doesn't map to an extant call, it creates a new call for that user ID and attempts to add it. If, when we try to add it, the user ID is now registered, we now reject the message with -EEXIST. We should never see this situation unless two threads are racing, trying to create a call with the same ID - which would be an error. It also isn't required to provide sendmsg() with an address - provided the control message data holds a user ID that maps to a currently active call. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-09-15RxRPC: Declare the security index constants symbolicallyDavid Howells1-0/+7
Declare the security index constants symbolically rather than just referring to them numerically. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-04-26[AF_RXRPC]: Provide secure RxRPC sockets for use by userspace and kernel bothDavid Howells1-0/+62
Provide AF_RXRPC sockets that can be used to talk to AFS servers, or serve answers to AFS clients. KerberosIV security is fully supported. The patches and some example test programs can be found in: http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/rxrpc/ This will eventually replace the old implementation of kernel-only RxRPC currently resident in net/rxrpc/. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>