On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 02:12:34PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 11:59 +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 11:54:46AM +0200, Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > the attached patches fix https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/2701
> > > 
> > > The first patch just adds a common function instead of copying the same
> > > pattern again to the new test.
> > > 
> > > The second adds a new request krb5_auth_queue_send() that wraps
> > > krb5_auth_send() and also uses the Kerberos authentication queue. I hope
> > > the unit tests cover a lot of use-cases, if not, please suggest more!
> > > 
> > > btw I was thinking that the chaining might not always be necessary if
> > > the ccache is of type MEMORY and I hope that the serializaton wouldn't
> > > be perceived as performance regression for users. Shall we say that
> > > Pavel's cached auth patches are a more systematic solution that doesn't
> > > rely on properties of the ccache type in that case?
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but CI fails on Debian because of wrong linking with
> > libraries. I'm already testing a fix. Review of the rest is appreciated
> > :-)
> 
> If we are serializing all authentications then a busy server would be
> swamped. I do not see a per-user/per-cache queue so I would tentatively
> NACK the approach sorry.

The current cache queue is per user, see add_to_wait_queue() for
details.

bye,
Sumit

> 
> If clobbering is the only issues we have then what we can do is to
> always use a custom memory ccache for each auth attempt and then use a
> locking mechanism to copy from the memory ccache to the actual ccache.
> 
> But we should really do either per-ccache queuing (maybe not per user as
> in pathological cases we may have the same ccache for different users ?)
> or use memory ccaches and copy them with locking, but fully serializing
> all authentications is not really a solution, when a full auth may
> require multiple network roundtrips.
>  
> Simo.
> 
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> Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York
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