SUNRPC: Don't create a gss auth cache unless rpc.gssd is running
An infinite loop is caused when nfs4_establish_lease() fails
with -EACCES. This causes nfs4_handle_reclaim_lease_error()
to sleep a bit and resets the NFS4CLNT_LEASE_EXPIRED bit.
This in turn causes nfs4_state_manager() to try and
reestablished the lease, again, again, again...
The problem is a valid RPCSEC_GSS client is being created when
rpc.gssd is not running.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Fixes: 0ea9de0ea6a4 (sunrpc: turn warn_gssd() log message into a dprintk())
Reported-by: Steve Dickson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index 6c0513a..44a61e8 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -991,6 +991,8 @@
gss_auth->service = gss_pseudoflavor_to_service(gss_auth->mech, flavor);
if (gss_auth->service == 0)
goto err_put_mech;
+ if (!gssd_running(gss_auth->net))
+ goto err_put_mech;
auth = &gss_auth->rpc_auth;
auth->au_cslack = GSS_CRED_SLACK >> 2;
auth->au_rslack = GSS_VERF_SLACK >> 2;
