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Commit 1de7eea9 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Anna Schumaker
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SUNRPC: add side channel to use non-generic cred for rpc call.



The credential passed in rpc_message.rpc_cred is always a
generic credential except in one instance.
When gss_destroying_context() calls rpc_call_null(), it passes
a specific credential that it needs to destroy.
In this case the RPC acts *on* the credential rather than
being authorized by it.

This special case deserves explicit support and providing that will
mean that rpc_message.rpc_cred is *always* generic, allowing
some optimizations.

So add "tk_op_cred" to rpc_task and "rpc_op_cred" to the setup data.
Use this to pass the cred down from rpc_call_null(), and have
rpcauth_bindcred() notice it and bind it in place.

Credit to kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> for finding
a bug in earlier version of this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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