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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 21:33:18 +0000
From: "Schumaker, Anna" <Anna.Schumaker@...app.com>
To: "bfields@...ldses.org" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
"neilb@...e.com" <neilb@...e.com>
CC: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"trond.myklebust@...merspace.com" <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>,
"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
"chuck.lever@...cle.com" <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
"jlayton@...nel.org" <jlayton@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/23 - V5] NFS: Remove generic RPC credentials.
On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 15:21 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 11:30:30AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> > This is the same series as posted on 07 November, modified slightly
> > to match some recent code changes upstream - nothing substantial.
> >
> > General description:
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be a maintainer for the 'cred' code, so I don't
> > know who to ask to approve the first 4 patches. Maybe if the NFS
> > team like them, they can just go to Linus with a note for him to look
> > at them if he wants to.
>
> For what it's worth: all my usual tests still pass with this series
> applied. And the nfsd (and common) parts are unlikely to conflict with
> anything of mine.
>
> Otherwise: sounds like a reasonable idea, but I haven't gotten a chance
> to review the patches in any detail.
The patches look okay to me, I'm was planning to take them for the next merge.
Bruce, can I get your acked-by for the patches that touch NFSD? I think it's
just 19/23.
Thanks,
Anna
>
> --b.
>
> > The original motivation for this was performance. In some
> > circumstances the cred caches can get big and particularly can get
> > long chains. The hash function has been changed at least once to
> > improve the hashing and it still isn't perfect.
> > Rather than improving pruning of the cache, or resizing the hashtable
> > etc, it is easiest to just get rid of it.
> >
> > As well as discarding generic credentials completely (using 'struct
> > cred' instead), we also stop storing AUTH_UNIX credentials in a hash
> > table - that brings no value. Just allocate as needed and discard
> > when finished with.
> > So the only hash table will still have is for AUTH_GSS.
> > One of the main triggers for hashtable problems was users changing
> > groups a lot, so there would be many entries for the one user, each
> > with a different set of groups. That doesn't apply for
> > AUTH_GSS as the groupids on the client are ignored.
> >
> > That was the original motivation, but as I worked on it, I realized
> > that it was making a log of code simpler.
> >
> > 44 files changed, 550 insertions(+), 925 deletions(-)
> >
> > That is sufficient motivation in itself I think.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > NeilBrown
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > NeilBrown (23):
> > cred: add cred_fscmp() for comparing creds.
> > cred: add get_cred_rcu()
> > cred: export get_task_cred().
> > cred: allow get_cred() and put_cred() to be given NULL.
> > SUNRPC: add 'struct cred *' to auth_cred and rpc_cred
> > SUNRPC: remove groupinfo from struct auth_cred.
> > SUNRPC: remove uid and gid from struct auth_cred
> > SUNRPC: remove machine_cred field from struct auth_cred
> > NFSv4: add cl_root_cred for use when machine cred is not available.
> > NFSv4: don't require lock for get_renew_cred or get_machine_cred
> > SUNRPC: discard RPC_DO_ROOTOVERRIDE()
> > NFS/SUNRPC: don't lookup machine credential until rpcauth_bindcred().
> > SUNRPC: introduce RPC_TASK_NULLCREDS to request auth_none
> > SUNRPC: add side channel to use non-generic cred for rpc call.
> > NFS: move credential expiry tracking out of SUNRPC into NFS.
> > SUNRPC: remove RPCAUTH_AUTH_NO_CRKEY_TIMEOUT
> > NFS: change access cache to use 'struct cred'.
> > NFS: struct nfs_open_dir_context: convert rpc_cred pointer to cred.
> > NFS/NFSD/SUNRPC: replace generic creds with 'struct cred'.
> > SUNRPC: remove generic cred code.
> > SUNRPC: remove crbind rpc_cred operation
> > SUNRPC: simplify auth_unix.
> > SUNRPC discard cr_uid from struct rpc_cred.
> >
> >
> > fs/lockd/clntproc.c | 6 -
> > fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c | 2
> > fs/nfs/client.c | 9 -
> > fs/nfs/delegation.c | 28 +--
> > fs/nfs/delegation.h | 10 -
> > fs/nfs/dir.c | 59 ++----
> > fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.c | 64 +++---
> > fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayout.h | 8 -
> > fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayoutdev.c | 16 +-
> > fs/nfs/inode.c | 13 +
> > fs/nfs/internal.h | 8 -
> > fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c | 4
> > fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h | 65 +++---
> > fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 4
> > fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 150 +++++++--------
> > fs/nfs/nfs4renewd.c | 9 -
> > fs/nfs/nfs4session.c | 5
> > fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 129 ++++++-------
> > fs/nfs/pagelist.c | 2
> > fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 14 +
> > fs/nfs/pnfs.h | 10 -
> > fs/nfs/pnfs_dev.c | 4
> > fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c | 2
> > fs/nfs/proc.c | 2
> > fs/nfs/unlink.c | 15 -
> > fs/nfs/write.c | 24 ++
> > fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 31 +--
> > fs/nfsd/state.h | 2
> > include/linux/cred.h | 26 ++-
> > include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 13 +
> > include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h | 2
> > include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 16 +-
> > include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h | 51 -----
> > include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h | 1
> > include/linux/sunrpc/sched.h | 6 -
> > kernel/cred.c | 58 ++++++
> > net/sunrpc/Makefile | 2
> > net/sunrpc/auth.c | 116 ++++++-----
> > net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c | 293 --------------------------
> > ---
> > net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c | 47 +----
> > net/sunrpc/auth_null.c | 4
> > net/sunrpc/auth_unix.c | 110 +++--------
> > net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 26 +--
> > net/sunrpc/sched.c | 5
> > 44 files changed, 551 insertions(+), 920 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c
> >
> > --
> > Signature
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