[Labeled-nfs] Labeled RPC & NFS

[James Morris]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> Look at the code inside the CONFIG_NFS_V4_PUTCLIENTLABEL #ifdefs.
> 
> Passing in enough context to make this behavior conditional on mount
> option/server support looks to be highly intrusive.  (We need struct
> nfs_server to test for server capabilities.)
> 
> If its acceptable to add a pointer to every single client operation argument
> structure I'll do so.

What I was thinking of was to have a compound op prepended to client 
messages to carry the client MAC label.  This kind of thing needs to be 
done for SEQUENCE operations in v4.1, so it's not something that will be 
wholly foreign in concept.


- James
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James Morris
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