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

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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>
>

Jeff, Thanks.  Do you mean prior instead of later?

[PATCH] NTLM auth and sign - Use appropriate server challenge

should go in first. But it is not marked as either ack'ed or review'ed yet.

Regards,

Shirish
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