Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix infinite loop in gss_create_upcall()

From: Bryan Schumaker
Date: Tue Apr 12 2011 - 14:43:18 EST


On 04/12/2011 02:34 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 04/12/2011 08:31 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>> Yes, it fixes the problem. But it waits 15s before it times out. This is
>>> inacceptable for automounted NFS dirs.
>>
>> I'm still confused as to why you are hitting it at all. In the normal
>> autonegotiation case, the client should be trying to use AUTH_SYS first
>> and then trying rpcsec_gss if and only if that fails.
>>
>> Are you really exporting a filesystem using AUTH_NULL as the only
>> supported flavour?
>
> I don't know, I connect to a nfs server which is not maintained by me.
> It looks like that. How can I find out?

If you're not using gss for anything, you could try rmmod-ing rpcsec_gss_krb5 (and other rpcsec_gss_* modules).

- Bryan

>
> thanks,

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