Re: [PATCH 1/2] cifs: during remount, make sure passwords are in sync

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The last patch needed some revision, please ignore it. Here is the
updated version:
Apologies for the confusion.

On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 5:18 PM Meetakshi Setiya
<meetakshisetiyaoss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the review, Paulo. I have attached the updated patch.
> I will send the password rotation changes for DFS, SMB1 (and multiuser) later,
> separately.
>
> Best
> Meetakshi
>
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM Meetakshi Setiya
> <meetakshisetiyaoss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Typo: password rotation for SMB1.0 is NOT supported for reconnects. It works for fresh
> > mounts and remounts.
> > Should I add support for reconnect or remove it completely?
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2024 at 3:20 PM Meetakshi Setiya <meetakshisetiyaoss@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Paulo,
> >>
> >> Given your and Shyam's comments, I am thinking of making the
> >> following changes to the code to support password rotation for DFS:
> >>
> >> 1. For a fresh mount:
> >>     - In cifs_do_automount, bring the passwords in fs_context in sync with
> >>     the passwords in the session object before sending the context to the
> >>     child/submount.
> >>
> >> 2. For a remount (of the root only):
> >>     - In smb3_reconfigure, bring the passwords in the fs_context of the master
> >>     tcon in sync with its session object passwords. After this is done, a new
> >>     function will be called to iterate over the dfs_ses_list held in this tcon
> >>     and sync their session passwords with the updated root session password
> >>     and password2.
> >>
> >> Password rotation for multiuser mounts is out of scope for this patch and I will
> >> address it later.
> >>
> >> Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions on this approach.
> >>
> >> Also, we share the mount code path (cifs_mount) for all SMB versions. So, password
> >> rotation for SMB1.0 is currently supported ONLY on mounts. Password rotation on
> >> remount, however, is not. Should I remove the support completely for SMB1.0
> >> (print a warning message), leave it be, or add remount support?
> >
> >
> > reconnect, not remount.
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Meetakshi
> >>
> >> On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 5:34 PM Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >>>
> >>> > On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 5:47 PM Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> >> > What about SMB sessions from cifs_tcon::dfs_ses_list?  I don't see their
> >>> >> > password getting updated over remount.
> >>> >>
> >>> >> This is in our to-do list as well.
> >>> >
> >>> > I did some code reading around how DFS automount works.
> >>> > @Paulo Alcantara Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like we make
> >>> > an assumption that when a DFS namespace has a junction to another
> >>> > share, the same credentials are to be used to perform the mount of
> >>> > that share. Is that always the case?
> >>>
> >>> Yes, it inherits fs_context from the parent mount.  For multiuser
> >>> mounts, when uid/gid/cruid are unspecified, we need to update its values
> >>> to match real uid/gid from the calling process.
> >>>
> >>> > If we go by that assumption, for password2 to work with DFS mounts, we
> >>> > only need to make sure that in cifs_do_automount, cur_ctx passwords
> >>> > are synced up to the current ses passwords. That should be quite easy.
> >>>
> >>> Correct.  The fs_context for the automount is dup'ed from the parent
> >>> mount.  smb3_fs_context_dup() already dups password2, so it should work.
> >>>
> >>> The 'remount' case isn't still handled, that's why I mentioned it above.
> >>> You'd need to set password2 for all sessios in @tcon->dfs_ses_list.
> >>>
> >>> I think we need to update password2 for the multiuser sessions as well
> >>> and not only for session from master tcon.

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