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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2016-04-04 15:00:37 +0200
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2016-06-22 10:10:00 +0200
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parentrxrpc: Replace conn->trans->{local,peer} with conn->params.{local,peer} (diff)
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rxrpc: Fix exclusive connection handling
"Exclusive connections" are meant to be used for a single client call and then scrapped. The idea is to limit the use of the negotiated security context. The current code, however, isn't doing this: it is instead restricting the socket to a single virtual connection and doing all the calls over that. This is changed such that the socket no longer maintains a special virtual connection over which it will do all the calls, but rather gets a new one each time a new exclusive call is made. Further, using a socket option for this is a poor choice. It should be done on sendmsg with a control message marker instead so that calls can be marked exclusive individually. To that end, add RXRPC_EXCLUSIVE_CALL which, if passed to sendmsg() as a control message element, will cause the call to be done on an single-use connection. The socket option (RXRPC_EXCLUSIVE_CONNECTION) still exists and, if set, will override any lack of RXRPC_EXCLUSIVE_CALL being specified so that programs using the setsockopt() will appear to work the same. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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