[16605] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: an issue relating to using current MIT krb code in kernel space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Fiveash)
Fri Jan 21 13:48:02 2011
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:46:05 -0600
From: Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@oracle.com>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:34:51PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 16:32 -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> > so I either have to add it
> > back for Solaris or dynamically calculate the number of krb5_enctype
> > entries there are in context->in_tkt_ktypes before I call
> > FREE()/kmem_free().
>
> Is dynamically calculating the length a problem? We have a short
> function krb5int_count_etypes (in lib/krb5/krb/etype_list.c) to conduct
> this count, and the runtime overhead should be minimal since enctype
> lists are pretty short.
It's not a big problem and that's what I've done to deal with that
issue. Really I just wanted to point out that as one of the issues in
making the krb code suitable for kernel use since I was dealing with
that recently.
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Will Fiveash
Oracle
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