linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 1/2] fs/cifs: Converting into generic boolean

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Date:	Sat, 2 Sep 2006 09:18:22 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Steven French <sfrench@...ibm.com>
cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-cifs-client@...ts.samba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se>, sfrench@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-rc4-mm3 1/2] fs/cifs: Converting into generic
 boolean

>> Should not this become 'bool use_ntlmssp'? Possibly in a later patch?

>Yes, but ...
>fs/cifs/asn1.c file may go away eventually .  After getting most of the way
>through implementation quite a while ago, I realized that it would be too
>risky to rely on SPNEGO parsing in kernel (too easy to overrun buffers)
>unless the kernel had dedicated asn1 library (which would be very hard)

That sounds like it would be best to make it a FUSE.


Jan Engelhardt
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