linux-kernel - Re: NFS4 sec=krb5 broken in 3.9-rc8

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Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:23:34 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Malte Schröder <maltesch@....de>
Cc:	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS4 sec=krb5 broken in 3.9-rc8

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:20:39AM +0200, Malte Schröder wrote:
> On 24.04.2013 21:23, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:07:59PM +0200, Malte Schröder wrote:
> > Probably some of those "svc_process dropit"s are coming from attempts to
> > look up the newly created cred (so lookups in the rsc_cache) which fail
> > for some reason.  I'm not sure what that would be.
> > 
> > --b.
> 
> Hi,
> I tried bisecting the problem. It identified
> 683428fae8c73d7d7da0fa2e0b6beb4d8df4e808 as the problem, reverting it
> didn't fix the problem, though. During the process there where some
> states where mounting wouldn't hang but be denied. I will try bisecting
> again, later.

Oh, so probably 3c34ae11fac3b30629581d0bfaf80f58e82cfbfb "nfsd: fix krb5
handling of anonymous principals" needs backporting to stable--could you
confirm whether applying that helps?

Thanks for the bisection.

--b.
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