linux-kernel - Re: [RFQ PATCH] cifs: Change default security error message

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Message-ID: <20121129153639.57dede12@tlielax.poochiereds.net>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:36:39 -0500
From:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
To:	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc:	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, sfrench@...ba.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFQ PATCH] cifs: Change default security error message

On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:54:41 -0600
Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:30:53 +0100
> > Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> Connecting with a default security mechanism prompts an KERN_ERROR
> >> output warning to the user that the default mechanism will be changed
> >> in Linux 3.3.
> >>
> >> We're now at 3.7, so we either could remove the warning completely
> >> (if the default has been changed), or we could bump the number to
> >> what our current target for the change is.
> >>
> >>
> >> The below patch changes the cERROR (which turns into a printk with KERN_ERROR)
> >> into a straight printk with KERN_WARNING and changes the text to indicate
> >> that it was changed in 3.3.
> >>
> >> I expect that the patch is incorrect and that we should choose
> >> another of the alternative solutions above, but I'd like to get
> >> some input on this.
> >>
> >> Not-Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>
> >> ---
> >> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> >> index c83f5b65..968456f 100644
> >> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> >> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> >> @@ -2480,9 +2480,9 @@ cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_vol *volume_info)
> >>       supported for many years, time to update default security mechanism */
> >>       if ((volume_info->secFlg == 0) && warned_on_ntlm == false) {
> >>               warned_on_ntlm = true;
> >> -             cERROR(1, "default security mechanism requested.  The default "
> >> -                     "security mechanism will be upgraded from ntlm to "
> >> -                     "ntlmv2 in kernel release 3.3");
> >> +             printk(KERN_WARNING "default security mechanism requested.  "
> >> +                     "The default security mechanism was changed "
> >> +                     " from ntlm to ntlmv2 in kernel release 3.3");
> >>       }
> >>       ses->overrideSecFlg = volume_info->secFlg;
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> /^JN - Jesper Nilsson
> >
> > I think this warning has lived long enough and needs to go away. Steve
> > supposedly has a patch that finally makes this change, but it hasn't
> > been sent to the list yet... Steve?
> 
> It was posted to list on November 25th (and you even included it in
> your git tree on samba.org ?!)
> 

Oops, my mistake. You're quite correct...

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
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