SUNRPC: use sockaddr + size when creating remote transport endpoints
Prepare for more generic transport endpoint handling needed by transports
that might use different forms of addressing, such as IPv6.
Introduce a single function call to replace the two-call
xprt_create_proto/rpc_create_client API. Define a new rpc_create_args
structure that allows callers to pass in remote endpoint addresses of
varying length.
Test-plan:
Compile kernel with CONFIG_NFS enabled.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index ff1e90f..dbb93bd 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -192,6 +192,67 @@
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
+/*
+ * rpc_create - create an RPC client and transport with one call
+ * @args: rpc_clnt create argument structure
+ *
+ * Creates and initializes an RPC transport and an RPC client.
+ *
+ * It can ping the server in order to determine if it is up, and to see if
+ * it supports this program and version. RPC_CLNT_CREATE_NOPING disables
+ * this behavior so asynchronous tasks can also use rpc_create.
+ */
+struct rpc_clnt *rpc_create(struct rpc_create_args *args)
+{
+ struct rpc_xprt *xprt;
+ struct rpc_clnt *clnt;
+
+ xprt = xprt_create_transport(args->protocol, args->address,
+ args->addrsize, args->timeout);
+ if (IS_ERR(xprt))
+ return (struct rpc_clnt *)xprt;
+
+ /*
+ * By default, kernel RPC client connects from a reserved port.
+ * CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE will not be set for unprivileged requesters,
+ * but it is always enabled for rpciod, which handles the connect
+ * operation.
+ */
+ xprt->resvport = 1;
+ if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_NONPRIVPORT)
+ xprt->resvport = 0;
+
+ dprintk("RPC: creating %s client for %s (xprt %p)\n",
+ args->program->name, args->servername, xprt);
+
+ clnt = rpc_new_client(xprt, args->servername, args->program,
+ args->version, args->authflavor);
+ if (IS_ERR(clnt))
+ return clnt;
+
+ if (!(args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_NOPING)) {
+ int err = rpc_ping(clnt, RPC_TASK_SOFT|RPC_TASK_NOINTR);
+ if (err != 0) {
+ rpc_shutdown_client(clnt);
+ return ERR_PTR(err);
+ }
+ }
+
+ clnt->cl_softrtry = 1;
+ if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_HARDRTRY)
+ clnt->cl_softrtry = 0;
+
+ if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_INTR)
+ clnt->cl_intr = 1;
+ if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_AUTOBIND)
+ clnt->cl_autobind = 1;
+ if (args->flags & RPC_CLNT_CREATE_ONESHOT)
+ clnt->cl_oneshot = 1;
+
+ return clnt;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_create);
+
/**
* Create an RPC client
* @xprt - pointer to xprt struct
