SUNRPC: Support registering IPv6 interfaces with local rpcbind daemon
Introduce a new API to register RPC services on IPv6 interfaces to allow the NFS server and lockd to advertise on IPv6 networks. Unlike rpcb_register(), the new rpcb_v4_register() function uses rpcbind protocol version 4 to contact the local rpcbind daemon. The version 4 SET/UNSET procedures allow services to register address families besides AF_INET, register at specific network interfaces, and register transport protocols besides UDP and TCP. All of this functionality is exposed via the new rpcb_v4_register() kernel API. A user-space rpcbind daemon implementation that supports version 4 of the rpcbind protocol is required in order to make use of this new API. Note that rpcbind version 3 is sufficient to support the new rpcbind facilities listed above, but most extant implementations use version 4. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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