Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 2025-03-12 at 10:32 -0500, Steve French wrote: >> 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? > > Yeah, I was going to ask whether just not passing password2 when doing > anonymous mount might be an option? That way the new cifs-utils will > work with older kernels, rather than being a sudden surprise for anyone > who happens to get a new cifs-utils but not a new kernel, for whatever Yes, we could also change cifs-utils to not send both password= and password2= when using guest mount option. The kernel change is still required in case someone is using mount(2) directly and end up passing an empty password2= option.
