This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: Allow passwords which begin with a delimitor
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cifs-allow-passwords-which-begin-with-a-delimitor.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c369c9a4a7c82d33329d869cbaf93304cc7a0c40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 18:17:41 +0100
Subject: cifs: Allow passwords which begin with a delimitor
From: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit c369c9a4a7c82d33329d869cbaf93304cc7a0c40 upstream.
Fixes a regression in cifs_parse_mount_options where a password
which begins with a delimitor is parsed incorrectly as being a blank
password.
Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/connect.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -1546,14 +1546,24 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mou
}
break;
case Opt_blank_pass:
- vol->password = NULL;
- break;
- case Opt_pass:
/* passwords have to be handled differently
* to allow the character used for deliminator
* to be passed within them
*/
+ /*
+ * Check if this is a case where the password
+ * starts with a delimiter
+ */
+ tmp_end = strchr(data, '=');
+ tmp_end++;
+ if (!(tmp_end < end && tmp_end[1] == delim)) {
+ /* No it is not. Set the password to NULL */
+ vol->password = NULL;
+ break;
+ }
+ /* Yes it is. Drop down to Opt_pass below.*/
+ case Opt_pass:
/* Obtain the value string */
value = strchr(data, '=');
value++;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/cifs-allow-passwords-which-begin-with-a-delimitor.patch
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