Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix regression during share-level security mounts (Repost)

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On 01/19/2011 10:03 AM, shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> NTLM response length was changed to 16 bytes instead of 24 bytes
> that are sent in Tree Connection Request during share-level security
> share mounts.  Revert it back to 24 bytes.
> 
> 
> Reported-and-Tested-by: Grzegorz Ozanski <grzegorz.ozanski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

The patch looks OK to me going by:
	http://davenport.sourceforge.net/ntlm.html#theNtlmResponse

However, it's not clear to me which change modified this value to 16 and
why? May be adding a commit id and little explanation in changelog to
why it was modified to 16 would help?

Acked-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 41f002f..cdba196 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -2966,7 +2966,7 @@ CIFSTCon(unsigned int xid, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
>  		bcc_ptr++;              /* skip password */
>  		/* already aligned so no need to do it below */
>  	} else {
> -		pSMB->PasswordLength = cpu_to_le16(CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE);
> +		pSMB->PasswordLength = cpu_to_le16(CIFS_AUTH_RESP_SIZE);
>  		/* BB FIXME add code to fail this if NTLMv2 or Kerberos
>  		   specified as required (when that support is added to
>  		   the vfs in the future) as only NTLM or the much
> @@ -2984,7 +2984,7 @@ CIFSTCon(unsigned int xid, struct cifsSesInfo *ses,
>  #endif /* CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH */
>  		SMBNTencrypt(tcon->password, ses->server->cryptkey, bcc_ptr);
>  
> -		bcc_ptr += CIFS_SESS_KEY_SIZE;
> +		bcc_ptr += CIFS_AUTH_RESP_SIZE;
>  		if (ses->capabilities & CAP_UNICODE) {
>  			/* must align unicode strings */
>  			*bcc_ptr = 0; /* null byte password */


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