This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
SMB3: Validate negotiate request must always be signed
to the 4.4-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:
smb3-validate-negotiate-request-must-always-be-signed.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4587eee04e2ac7ac3ac9fa2bc164fb6e548f99cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:58:31 -0500
Subject: SMB3: Validate negotiate request must always be signed
From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 4587eee04e2ac7ac3ac9fa2bc164fb6e548f99cd upstream.
According to MS-SMB2 3.2.55 validate_negotiate request must
always be signed. Some Windows can fail the request if you send it unsigned
See kernel bugzilla bug 197311
CC: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
@@ -1558,6 +1558,9 @@ SMB2_ioctl(const unsigned int xid, struc
} else
iov[0].iov_len = get_rfc1002_length(req) + 4;
+ /* validate negotiate request must be signed - see MS-SMB2 3.2.5.5 */
+ if (opcode == FSCTL_VALIDATE_NEGOTIATE_INFO)
+ req->hdr.Flags |= SMB2_FLAGS_SIGNED;
rc = SendReceive2(xid, ses, iov, num_iovecs, &resp_buftype, 0);
rsp = (struct smb2_ioctl_rsp *)iov[0].iov_base;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smfrench@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/smb3-validate-negotiate-request-must-always-be-signed.patch
queue-4.4/cifs-enable-encryption-during-session-setup-phase.patch