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Commit c8407f2e authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFS: Add an "xprtsec=" NFS mount option



After some discussion, we decided that controlling transport layer
security policy should be separate from the setting for the user
authentication flavor. To accomplish this, add a new NFS mount
option to select a transport layer security policy for RPC
operations associated with the mount point.

  xprtsec=none     - Transport layer security is forced off.

  xprtsec=tls      - Establish an encryption-only TLS session. If
                     the initial handshake fails, the mount fails.
                     If TLS is not available on a reconnect, drop
                     the connection and try again.

  xprtsec=mtls     - Both sides authenticate and an encrypted
                     session is created. If the initial handshake
                     fails, the mount fails. If TLS is not available
                     on a reconnect, drop the connection and try
                     again.

To support client peer authentication (mtls), the handshake daemon
will have configurable default authentication material (certificate
or pre-shared key). In the future, mount options can be added that
can provide this material on a per-mount basis.

Updates to mount.nfs (to support xprtsec=auto) and nfs(5) will be
sent under separate cover.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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