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Commit 030d794b authored by Simo Sorce's avatar Simo Sorce Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS authentication.



The main advantge of this new upcall mechanism is that it can handle
big tickets as seen in Kerberos implementations where tickets carry
authorization data like the MS-PAC buffer with AD or the Posix Authorization
Data being discussed in IETF on the krbwg working group.

The Gssproxy program is used to perform the accept_sec_context call on the
kernel's behalf. The code is changed to also pass the input buffer straight
to upcall mechanism to avoid allocating and copying many pages as tokens can
be as big (potentially more in future) as 64KiB.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSimo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
[bfields: containerization, negotiation api]
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
parent 1d658336
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