Re: RFC: merging nfs-over-tls changes into head/sys

On 5/21/20 2:01 PM, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have now completed changes to the code in projects/nfs-over-tls, which
> implements TLS encryption of NFS RPC messages. (This roughly conforms
> to the internet draft "Towards Remote Procedure Call Encryption By Default",
> which should soon become an RFC. For now, TLS1.2 is used instead of TLS1.3,
> since FreeBSD's KERN_TLS does not yet implement TLS1.3.)
> 
> I'd like to start merging some of the kernel changes into head/sys.
> 
> The first of these would be creation of the syscall used by the daemons.
> (The code in projects/nfs-over-tls cheats and uses the syscall for the gssd,
>  but it needs to have its own syscall so that the gssd daemon can run concurrently
>  with it. I didn't want testers to need to build userland just to get a syscall stub
>  in libc.)
> 
> After this, there are a bunch of changes to the NFS code to add support for
> ext_pgs mbufs (these are significant patches, but should not affect the
> non-ext_pgs mbuf case, since they'll be conditional on ND_EXTPGS/M_EXTPGS).
> 
> Does this sound ok to do?
> 
> Please let me know if you see problems with me doing this?

I don't see any problems, per se, but I still need to do some changes on my
end for software KTLS RX before it's ready to merge (I'm hoping to kill
the iovecs in the kthreads entirely).

-- 
John Baldwin