struct rpc_auth {
        unsigned int            au_cslack;      /* call cred size estimate */
-       unsigned int            au_rslack;      /* reply verf size guess */
+                               /* guess at number of u32's auth adds before
+                                * reply data; normally the verifier size: */
+       unsigned int            au_rslack;
+                               /* for gss, used to calculate au_rslack: */
+       unsigned int            au_verfsize;
+
        unsigned int            au_flags;       /* various flags */
        struct rpc_authops *    au_ops;         /* operations */
        rpc_authflavor_t        au_flavor;      /* pseudoflavor (note may
 
 gss_validate(struct rpc_task *task, u32 *p)
 {
        struct rpc_cred *cred = task->tk_msg.rpc_cred;
-       struct gss_cred *gss_cred = container_of(cred, struct gss_cred,
-                                               gc_base);
        struct gss_cl_ctx *ctx = gss_cred_get_ctx(cred);
        u32             seq, qop_state;
        struct kvec     iov;
                cred->cr_flags &= ~RPCAUTH_CRED_UPTODATE;
        if (maj_stat)
                goto out_bad;
-       switch (gss_cred->gc_service) {
-       case RPC_GSS_SVC_NONE:
-              /* verifier data, flavor, length: */
-              task->tk_auth->au_rslack = XDR_QUADLEN(len) + 2;
-              break;
-       case RPC_GSS_SVC_INTEGRITY:
-              /* verifier data, flavor, length, length, sequence number: */
-              task->tk_auth->au_rslack = XDR_QUADLEN(len) + 4;
-              break;
-       case RPC_GSS_SVC_PRIVACY:
-              goto out_bad;
-       }
+       /* We leave it to unwrap to calculate au_rslack. For now we just
+        * calculate the length of the verifier: */
+       task->tk_auth->au_verfsize = XDR_QUADLEN(len) + 2;
        gss_put_ctx(ctx);
        dprintk("RPC: %4u GSS gss_validate: gss_verify_mic succeeded.\n",
                        task->tk_pid);
        struct gss_cred *gss_cred = container_of(cred, struct gss_cred,
                        gc_base);
        struct gss_cl_ctx *ctx = gss_cred_get_ctx(cred);
+       u32             *savedp = p;
        int             status = -EIO;
 
        if (ctx->gc_proc != RPC_GSS_PROC_DATA)
                        case RPC_GSS_SVC_PRIVACY:
                        break;
        }
+       /* take into account extra slack for integrity and privacy cases: */
+       task->tk_auth->au_rslack = task->tk_auth->au_verfsize + (p - savedp);
 out_decode:
        status = decode(rqstp, p, obj);
 out: