merged into cifs-2.6.git for-next pending additional testing/review Presumably we could also update cifs-utils (mount.cifs.c) to workaround this as well. Thoughts? On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When mounting a CIFS share with 'guest' mount option, mount.cifs(8) > will set empty password= and password2= options. Currently we only > handle empty strings from user= and password= options, so the mount > will fail with > > cifs: Bad value for 'password2' > > Fix this by handling empty string from password2= option as well. > > Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=303927 > Reported-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/83c00b5fea81c07f6897a5dd3ef50fd3b290f56c.camel@xxxxxxxxxx > Fixes: 35f834265e0d ("smb3: fix broken reconnect when password changing on the server by allowing password rotation") > Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c > index da5973c228ed..8c73d4d60d1a 100644 > --- a/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c > +++ b/fs/smb/client/fs_context.c > @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ const struct fs_parameter_spec smb3_fs_parameters[] = { > fsparam_string("username", Opt_user), > fsparam_string("pass", Opt_pass), > fsparam_string("password", Opt_pass), > + fsparam_string("pass2", Opt_pass2), > fsparam_string("password2", Opt_pass2), > fsparam_string("ip", Opt_ip), > fsparam_string("addr", Opt_ip), > @@ -1131,6 +1132,9 @@ static int smb3_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, > } else if (!strcmp("user", param->key) || !strcmp("username", param->key)) { > skip_parsing = true; > opt = Opt_user; > + } else if (!strcmp("pass2", param->key) || !strcmp("password2", param->key)) { > + skip_parsing = true; > + opt = Opt_pass2; > } > } > > -- > 2.48.1 > -- Thanks, Steve