Re: [PATCH] cifs: fix broken lanman (lm) auth code

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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:46:03 -0600
> Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:10:43 -0600
>> > shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Fix lanman (lm) authentication code.
>> >>
>> >> Change lm response length back to 24 from 16.
>> >> Parse lanmani mount option.
>> >> Add code to add odd parity bit to each of the eight bytes of a DES key.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>  fs/cifs/cifsglob.h |    3 ++-
>> >>  fs/cifs/connect.c  |    3 +++
>> >>  fs/cifs/sess.c     |    8 ++++----
>> >>  fs/cifs/smbdes.c   |   19 ++++++++++++++++++-
>> >>  4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
>> >> index 17afb0f..0b5c950 100644
>> >> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
>> >> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
>> >> @@ -710,7 +710,8 @@ require use of the stronger protocol */
>> >>  #define   CIFSSEC_MUST_SEAL  0x40040 /* not supported yet */
>> >>  #define   CIFSSEC_MUST_NTLMSSP       0x80080 /* raw ntlmssp with ntlmv2 */
>> >>
>> >> -#define   CIFSSEC_DEF (CIFSSEC_MAY_SIGN | CIFSSEC_MAY_NTLM | CIFSSEC_MAY_NTLMV2)
>> >> +#define   CIFSSEC_DEF (CIFSSEC_MAY_LANMAN | CIFSSEC_MAY_SIGN | \
>> >> +                     CIFSSEC_MAY_NTLM | CIFSSEC_MAY_NTLMV2)
>> >                        ^^^^^^^^^^^
>> >        Won't this change enable lanman auth by default? Is that
>> >        intended?
>>
>> I think it depends on what server sends in negprot response, the
>> minimun dialect it supports.
>> If the dialect is greater than Lanman2.1, the default auth mech for
>> cifs client is NTLM (ntlmv1)
>> if the dialect is less than or upto Lanman2.1, default auth mech for
>> cifs client is LANMAN (lm).
>>
>
> Historically we've required that the admin
> set /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags to allow LANMAN auth before the client
> will allow it to be used. I'm not opposed to changing that, but the
> description doesn't even mention anything about that.
>
> I think this ought to be a separate patch with a clearly described
> reason, and probably doesn't belong in 2.6.38. It doesn't seem like
> it's necessary to fix this bug.
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
>

I think that is still the case.  If we do not have the code,  we will get error
 CIFS VFS: mount failed weak security disabled in /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags
and auth will fail even if admin did necessary to allow LANMAN.
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