svcauth_gss_accept(9)

✨ NAME ✨

svcauth_gss_accept — okay bestie, this is the Kernel API Manual section 9 page for the function that decodes and validates an incoming RPC_AUTH_GSS credential. It's literally the bouncer checking your GSS vibe at the RPC door 💅✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Here's the signature, bestie — copy it exactly, no cap:

enum svc_auth_status svcauth_gss_accept (struct svc_rqst *rqstp );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rqstp — RPC transaction. That's the whole argument, bestie — one struct pointer and we're off 🫶

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Return values, and yes, every single one matters:

• SVC_OK — Success. Slay, we're in ✨
• SVC_COMPLETE — GSS context lifetime event. Noted, bestie 🎀
• SVC_DENIED — Credential or verifier is not valid. Nope, not today 🙅‍♀️
• SVC_GARBAGE — Failed to decode credential or verifier. The bits did not pass the vibe check 💀
• SVC_CLOSE — Temporary failure. Okay, temporary, we see you 😭

The rqstp->rq_auth_stat field is also set (see RFCs 2203 and 5531). Like, don't forget the auth stat field, bestie — it's important 🫶

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

Go read these next, bestie 🧚:

• Kernel file ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c
• gss_check_seq_num(9)
• svcauth_gss_release(9)

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xoxo, your source/version is ./net/sunrpc/auth_gss, and the date is October 2026 — catch you in the kernel, bestie 💖🌈