This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: Fix autonegotiate security settings mismatch to the 4.15-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-fix-autonegotiate-security-settings-mismatch.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 9aca7e454415f7878b28524e76bebe1170911a88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel N Pettersson <danielnp@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 16:00:12 +0100 Subject: cifs: Fix autonegotiate security settings mismatch From: Daniel N Pettersson <danielnp@xxxxxxxx> commit 9aca7e454415f7878b28524e76bebe1170911a88 upstream. Autonegotiation gives a security settings mismatch error if the SMB server selects an SMBv3 dialect that isn't SMB3.02. The exact error is "protocol revalidation - security settings mismatch". This can be tested using Samba v4.2 or by setting the global Samba setting max protocol = SMB3_00. The check that fails in smb3_validate_negotiate is the dialect verification of the negotiate info response. This is because it tries to verify against the protocol_id in the global smbdefault_values. The protocol_id in smbdefault_values is SMB3.02. In SMB2_negotiate the protocol_id in smbdefault_values isn't updated, it is global so it probably shouldn't be, but server->dialect is. This patch changes the check in smb3_validate_negotiate to use server->dialect instead of server->vals->protocol_id. The patch works with autonegotiate and when using a specific version in the vers mount option. Signed-off-by: Daniel N Pettersson <danielnp@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c @@ -733,8 +733,7 @@ int smb3_validate_negotiate(const unsign } /* check validate negotiate info response matches what we got earlier */ - if (pneg_rsp->Dialect != - cpu_to_le16(tcon->ses->server->vals->protocol_id)) + if (pneg_rsp->Dialect != cpu_to_le16(tcon->ses->server->dialect)) goto vneg_out; if (pneg_rsp->SecurityMode != cpu_to_le16(tcon->ses->server->sec_mode)) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from danielnp@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/cifs-fix-autonegotiate-security-settings-mismatch.patch