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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION PATCH v2] NFS: let NFS_V4 and NFSD_V4 enforce CRYPTO
Hello Trond,

On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 03:50:41PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 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?
ping

Best regards
Uwe

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