sunrpc/auth: allow lockless (rcu) lookup of credential cache.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:28:20 +0000 (11:28 +1000)
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Sun, 3 Aug 2014 21:14:12 +0000 (17:14 -0400)
The new flag RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_RCU to credential lookup avoids locking,
does not take a reference on the returned credential, and returns
-ECHILD if a simple lookup was not possible.

The returned value can only be used within an rcu_read_lock protected
region.

The main user of this is the new rpc_lookup_cred_nonblock() which
returns a pointer to the current credential which is only rcu-safe (no
ref-count held), and might return -ECHILD if allocation was required.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>

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