Re: [PATCH][SMB3] Allow skipping signing verification for perf sensitive use cases

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reviewed-by me

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:59 PM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Updated patch
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 9:53 PM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ok. Will fix the bool. I don't think it belongs in mount mask since it is a server not superblock parm
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, 21:37 ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Change
> >> bool ignore_signature;
> >> to
> >> bool ignore_signature:1;
> >>
> >> And shouldn't this be part of CIFS_MOUNT_MASK too ?
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 12:25 PM Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Add new mount option "signloosely" which enables signing but skips the
> >> > sometimes expensive signing checks in the responses (signatures are
> >> > calculated and sent correctly in the SMB2/SMB3 requests even with this
> >> > mount option but skipped in the responses).  Although weaker for security
> >> > (and also data integrity in case a packet were corrupted), this can provide
> >> > enough of a performance benefit (calculating the signature to verify a
> >> > packet can be expensive especially for large packets) to be useful in
> >> > some cases.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Steve
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve



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