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Commit 16e4d93f authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by J. Bruce Fields
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NFSD: Ignore client's source port on RDMA transports

An NFS/RDMA client's source port is meaningless for RDMA transports.
The transport layer typically sets the source port value on the
connection to a random ephemeral port.

Currently, NFS server administrators must specify the "insecure"
export option to enable clients to access exports via RDMA.

But this means NFS clients can access such an export via IP using an
ephemeral port, which may not be desirable.

This patch eliminates the need to specify the "insecure" export
option to allow NFS/RDMA clients access to an export.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250


Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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