Re: [PATCH] cifs: Cleanup and thus reduce smb session structure and fields used during authentication

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On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:53:07 -0500
shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> Removed following fields from smb session structure
>  cryptkey, ntlmv2_hash, tilen, tiblob
> and ntlmssp_auth structure is allocated dynamically only if the auth mech
> in NTLMSSP.
> 
> response field within a session_key structure is used to initially store the
> target info (either plucked from type 2 challenge packet in case of NTLMSSP
> or fabricated in case of NTLMv2 without extended security) and then to store
> Message Authentication Key (mak) (session key + client response).
> 
> Server challenge or cryptkey needed during a NTLMSSP authentication
> is now part of ntlmssp_auth structure which gets allocated and freed
> once authenticaiton process is done.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>

Ack, assuming that this is needed for the later NTLMSSP cleanup patch
to merge.

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
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