XDR strings, opaques, and net objects should all use unsigned lengths.
To wit, RFC 4506 says:

4.2.  Unsigned Integer

   An XDR unsigned integer is a 32-bit datum that encodes a non-negative
   integer in the range [0,4294967295].

 ...

4.11.  String

   The standard defines a string of n (numbered 0 through n-1) ASCII
   bytes to be the number n encoded as an unsigned integer (as described
   above), and followed by the n bytes of the string.

After this patch, xdr_decode_string_inplace now matches the other XDR
string and array helpers that take a string length argument.  See:

xdr_encode_opaque_fixed, xdr_encode_opaque, xdr_encode_array

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Acked-By: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>

Adds a flag word to the xdrbuf struct which indicates any bulk
disposition of the data. This enables RPC transport providers to
marshal it efficiently/appropriately, and may enable other
optimizations.

Signed-off-by: Tom Talpey <tmt@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Since every invocation of xdr encode or decode functions takes the BKL now,
there's a lot of redundant lock_kernel/unlock_kernel pairs that we can pull
out into a common function.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Clean-up:  hch suggested that the RPC client shouldn't pollute the name
space used by the generic skb manipulation routines in net/core/skbuff.c.

Rename a couple of types in xdr.h to adhere to this convention.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Clean-up: eliminate xs_tcp_copy_data -- it's exactly the same logic as the
common routine skb_read_bits.  The UDP and TCP socket read code now share
the same routine for copying data into an xdr_buf.

Now that skb_read_bits() is exported, rename it to avoid confusing it with
a generic skb_* function.  As these functions are XDR-specific, they should
not have names that suggest they are of generic use.  Also rename
skb_read_and_csum_bits() to be consistent.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Since process_xdr_buf() is useful outside of the kerberos-specific code, we
move it to net/sunrpc/xdr.c, export it, and rename it in keeping with xdr_*
naming convention of xdr.c.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Converts various integer buffer offsets and sizes to unsigned integer.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

It is possible for the ->fopen callback from lockd into nfsd to find that an
answer cannot be given straight away (an upcall is needed) and so the request
has to be 'dropped', to be retried later.  That error status is not currently
propagated back.

So:
  Change nlm_fopen to return nlm error codes (rather than a private
  protocol) and define a new nlm_drop_reply code.
  Cause nlm_drop_reply to cause the rpc request to get rpc_drop_reply
  when this error comes back.
  Cause svc_process to drop a request which returns a status of
  rpc_drop_reply.

[akpm@osdl.org: fix warning storm]
Cc: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

pure s/u32/__be32/

[AV: large part based on Alexey's patches]

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>