linux/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout
NeilBrown a52458b48a 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>
2018-12-19 13:52:46 -05:00
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flexfilelayout.c NFS/NFSD/SUNRPC: replace generic creds with 'struct cred'. 2018-12-19 13:52:46 -05:00
flexfilelayout.h NFS/NFSD/SUNRPC: replace generic creds with 'struct cred'. 2018-12-19 13:52:46 -05:00
flexfilelayoutdev.c NFS/NFSD/SUNRPC: replace generic creds with 'struct cred'. 2018-12-19 13:52:46 -05:00
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