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Commit a5250def authored by Weston Andros Adamson's avatar Weston Andros Adamson Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFSv4: use the mach cred for SECINFO w/ integrity


Commit 5ec16a85 introduced a regression
that causes SECINFO to fail without actualy sending an RPC if:

 1) the nfs_client's rpc_client was using KRB5i/p (now tried by default)
 2) the current user doesn't have valid kerberos credentials

This situation is quite common - as of now a sec=sys mount would use
krb5i for the nfs_client's rpc_client and a user would hardly be faulted
for not having run kinit.

The solution is to use the machine cred when trying to use an integrity
protected auth flavor for SECINFO.

Older servers may not support using the machine cred or an integrity
protected auth flavor for SECINFO in every circumstance, so we fall back
to using the user's cred and the filesystem's auth flavor in this case.

We run into another problem when running against linux nfs servers -
they return NFS4ERR_WRONGSEC when using integrity auth flavor (unless the
mount is also that flavor) even though that is not a valid error for
SECINFO*.  Even though it's against spec, handle WRONGSEC errors on SECINFO
by falling back to using the user cred and the filesystem's auth flavor.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWeston Andros Adamson <dros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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