sunrpc/auth: allow lockless (rcu) lookup of credential cache.

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>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c
index ed04869b2d4f..6f6b829c9e8e 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_generic.c
@@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ struct rpc_cred *rpc_lookup_cred(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_lookup_cred);
 
+struct rpc_cred *rpc_lookup_cred_nonblock(void)
+{
+	return rpcauth_lookupcred(&generic_auth, RPCAUTH_LOOKUP_RCU);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_lookup_cred_nonblock);
+
 /*
  * Public call interface for looking up machine creds.
  */