Re: [PATCH net 2/2] auth_gss: Fix deadlock that blocks rpcsec_gss_exit_net when use-gss-proxy==1

From: bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed Sep 29 2021 - 17:12:21 EST


On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 11:43:00AM -0400, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 03:36:58PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > What is the use case here? Starting the gssd daemon or knfsd in
> > separate chrooted environments? We already know that they have to be
> > started in the same net namespace, which pretty much ensures it has to
> > be the same container.
>
> Somehow I forgot that knfsd startup is happening in some real process's
> context too (not just a kthread).
>
> OK, great, I agree, that sounds like it should work.

Wang Hai, do you want to try that, or should I?

--b.