nfs: implement client support for NFS_LOCALIO_PROGRAM
The LOCALIO auxiliary RPC protocol consists of a single "UUID_IS_LOCAL" RPC method that allows the Linux NFS client to verify the local Linux NFS server can see the nonce (single-use UUID) the client generated and made available in nfs_common for subsequent lookup and verification by the NFS server. If matched, the NFS server populates members in the nfs_uuid_t struct. The NFS client then transfers these nfs_uuid_t struct member pointers to the nfs_client struct and cleans up the nfs_uuid_t struct. See: fs/nfs/localio.c:nfs_local_probe() This protocol isn't part of an IETF standard, nor does it need to be considering it is Linux-to-Linux auxiliary RPC protocol that amounts to an implementation detail. Localio is only supported when UNIX-style authentication (AUTH_UNIX, aka AUTH_SYS) is used (enforced by fs/nfs/localio.c:nfs_local_probe()). The UUID_IS_LOCAL method encodes the client generated uuid_t in terms of the fixed UUID_SIZE (16 bytes). The fixed size opaque encode and decode XDR methods are used instead of the less efficient variable sized methods. Having a nonce (single-use uuid) is better than using the same uuid for the life of the server, and sending it proactively by client rather than reactively by the server is also safer. Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org> Co-developed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
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