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    SubjectRe: [REGRESSION PATCH v2] NFS: let NFS_V4 and NFSD_V4 enforce CRYPTO
    On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 09:17:04AM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
    > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 10:52 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
    > > Hello,
    > >
    > > here comes a v2 of the patch that improves the commit log with a more
    > > detailed analysis of the breakage introduced by df486a2
    > > (= v2.6.36-rc2~34^2~1 BTW) and additionally undoes the "default y" for
    > > RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5.
    > >
    > > So compared to the state before df486a2 the changes are:
    > >
    > > NFS_V4 selects CRYPTO
    > > NFSD_V4 selects CRYPTO
    > > RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 doesn't depend on EXPERIMENTAL anymore
    > > RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 now depends on CRYPTO instead of selecting it
    > >
    > > Best regards
    > > Uwe
    > >
    > > ----------------------------->8----------------------------
    > >
    > > This is a follow up to
    > >
    > > df486a2 (NFS: Fix the selection of security flavours in Kconfig)
    > >
    > > Before df486a2 NFS_V4 selected RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 but didn't enforce the
    > > latter's dependency EXPERIMENTAL. df486a2 removed RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5's
    > > dependency on EXPERIMENTAL but additionally let it depend on CRYPTO
    > > (instead of select CRYPTO before). So it was still possible to have a
    > > config that has NFS_V4 but not RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5. Moreover df486a2
    > > changed the dependency of NFS_V4 and NFSD_V4 on RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 from
    >
    > As I said, the fix is to remove that dependency. I have a fix for the
    > NFS client, but the server has more insidious dependencies on RPCSEC_GSS
    > due to a poorly designed SECINFO implementation.
    Yes, I still remember this, so I suggest to take my patch before 2.6.36
    and you can fix it in the merge window for 2.6.37, no?

    Uwe

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