svcauth_tls_accept(9)

hiii bestie 💖 welcome to svcauth_tls_accept(9) from the Kernel API Manual — this one is lowkey the credential bouncer, it’s giving main character energy, and we’re obsessed ✨

💖 NAME 💖

svcauth_tls_accept — decode and validate incoming RPC_AUTH_TLS credential 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

enum svc_auth_status svcauth_tls_accept (struct svc_rqst *rqstp );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• rqstp — RPC transaction. that’s the whole vibe check for this arg bestie — slay 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the Return values, bestie, are literally the whole story here:

• SVC_OK: Both credential and verifier are valid ✅
• SVC_DENIED: Credential or verifier is not valid ❌
• SVC_GARBAGE: Failed to decode credential or verifier 💀
• SVC_CLOSE: Temporary failure 🙈

and no cap: rqstp->rq_auth_stat is set as mandated by RFC 5531. periodt 🎀

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the kernel file is ./net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c — go read it, iykyk 📖

• sunrpc_nl_unix_gid_get_reqs_dumpit(9)
• sunrpc_nl_parse_one_unix_gid(9)
• sunrpc_nl_unix_gid_set_reqs_doit(9)
• sunrpc_nl_cache_flush_doit(9)
• svcauth_null_accept(9)
• svcauth_unix_accept(9)
• sunrpc_nl_ip_map_get_reqs_dumpit(9)
• sunrpc_nl_parse_one_ip_map(9)
• sunrpc_nl_ip_map_set_reqs_doit(9)

xoxo your kernel bestie 💖 — source/version ./net/sunrpc, dated October 2026, on the svcauth_tls_accept(9) page ✨