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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: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.