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Commit 74fd4873 authored by Jeff Layton's avatar Jeff Layton Committed by Chuck Lever
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nfsd: new Kconfig option for legacy client tracking


We've had a number of attempts at different NFSv4 client tracking
methods over the years, but now nfsdcld has emerged as the clear winner
since the others (recoverydir and the usermodehelper upcall) are
problematic.

As a case in point, the recoverydir backend uses MD5 hashes to encode
long form clientid strings, which means that nfsd repeatedly gets dinged
on FIPS audits, since MD5 isn't considered secure. Its use of MD5 is not
cryptographically significant, so there is no danger there, but allowing
us to compile that out allows us to sidestep the issue entirely.

As a prelude to eventually removing support for these client tracking
methods, add a new Kconfig option that enables them. Mark it deprecated
and make it default to N.

Acked-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
parent 0dd3ee31
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