Backporting DCERPC Security Context Multiplexing?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 05:09:28PM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> Here's what I'm going with. No real changes, just the
> >> comments/commit massage updates and talloc -> talloc_zero change.
> >>
> >> RB+.
> >>
> >> Phew. That was a marathon review session :-).
> 
> As these patches would like fix real world problems, see:
> 
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7113
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11892
> 
> I'm wondering if we should backport them to current releases?
> We could also turn the feature off in order to keep the old
> behavior.
> 
> The patchset has a lot of patches, but the changes are very isolated
> in the core s4:rpc_server and we have an it's tested a lot in
> raw_protocol.py. I have a 4.9 backport here:
> 
> https://git.samba.org/?p=metze/samba/wip.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/v4-9-dcerpc-auth
> 
> And a pipeline is running here:
> https://gitlab.com/samba-team/devel/samba/pipelines/43756435
> 
> What do you think?

If you're willing to do the back-port work,
the least I can do is to re-review the
patches :-).