During recent testing related to the IETF NFSv4 Bakeathon, it was
discovered that Kerberized NFSv4.1/4.2 mounts to pNFS servers
(sec=krb5[ip],pnfs mount options) was broken.
The FreeBSD client was using the "service principal" for
the MDS to try and establish a rpcsec_gss credential for a DS,
which is incorrect. (A "service principal" looks like
"nfs@<fqdn-of-server>" and the <fqdn-of-server> for the DS is not
the same as the MDS for most pNFS servers.)
To fix this, the rpcsec_gss code needs to be able to do a
reverse DNS lookup of the DS's IP address. A new kgssapi upcall
to the gssd(8) daemon is added by this patch to do the reverse DNS
along with a new rpcsec_gss function to generate the "service
principal".
A separate patch to the gssd(8) will be committed, so that this
patch will fix the problem. Without the gssd(8) patch, the new
upcall fails and current/incorrect behaviour remains.
This bug only affects the rare case of a Kerberized (sec=krb5[ip],pnfs)
mount using pNFS.
This patch changes the internal KAPI between the kgssapi and
nfscl modules, but since I did a version bump a few days ago,
I will not do one this time.
MFC after: 1 month
and remove non-present symbols that are now reported by kmod_syms.awk.
Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32878
lightly used. Find the proper .m file when we depend on *_if.[ch] in
the srcs line, with seat-belts for false positive matches. This uses
make's path mechanism. A further refinement would be to calculate this
once, and then pass the resulting _MPATH to modules submakes.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2327
and server. This replaces the RPC implementation of the NFS client and
server with the newer RPC implementation originally developed
(actually ported from the userland sunrpc code) to support the NFS
Lock Manager. I have tested this code extensively and I believe it is
stable and that performance is at least equal to the legacy RPC
implementation.
The NFS code currently contains support for both the new RPC
implementation and the older legacy implementation inherited from the
original NFS codebase. The default is to use the new implementation -
add the NFS_LEGACYRPC option to fall back to the old code. When I
merge this support back to RELENG_7, I will probably change this so
that users have to 'opt in' to get the new code.
To use RPCSEC_GSS on either client or server, you must build a kernel
which includes the KGSSAPI option and the crypto device. On the
userland side, you must build at least a new libc, mountd, mount_nfs
and gssd. You must install new versions of /etc/rc.d/gssd and
/etc/rc.d/nfsd and add 'gssd_enable=YES' to /etc/rc.conf.
As long as gssd is running, you should be able to mount an NFS
filesystem from a server that requires RPCSEC_GSS authentication. The
mount itself can happen without any kerberos credentials but all
access to the filesystem will be denied unless the accessing user has
a valid ticket file in the standard place (/tmp/krb5cc_<uid>). There
is currently no support for situations where the ticket file is in a
different place, such as when the user logged in via SSH and has
delegated credentials from that login. This restriction is also
present in Solaris and Linux. In theory, we could improve this in
future, possibly using Brooks Davis' implementation of variant
symlinks.
Supporting RPCSEC_GSS on a server is nearly as simple. You must create
service creds for the server in the form 'nfs/<fqdn>@<REALM>' and
install them in /etc/krb5.keytab. The standard heimdal utility ktutil
makes this fairly easy. After the service creds have been created, you
can add a '-sec=krb5' option to /etc/exports and restart both mountd
and nfsd.
The only other difference an administrator should notice is that nfsd
doesn't fork to create service threads any more. In normal operation,
there will be two nfsd processes, one in userland waiting for TCP
connections and one in the kernel handling requests. The latter
process will create as many kthreads as required - these should be
visible via 'top -H'. The code has some support for varying the number
of service threads according to load but initially at least, nfsd uses
a fixed number of threads according to the value supplied to its '-n'
option.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems
MFC after: 1 month
