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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 39 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/Makefile | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 15 |
3 files changed, 42 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 487236c65837..18cd22149466 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1905,13 +1905,15 @@ config CIFS file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited - support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. - - The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced - network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, - including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user - session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional - packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. + support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as + well. + + The cifs module provides an advanced network file system + client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes + support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user + session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, + safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet + signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. config CIFS_STATS @@ -1943,7 +1945,8 @@ config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the - SMB protocol needed to establish sessions with old SMB servers. + SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to + establish sessions with some old SMB servers. Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such @@ -1951,8 +1954,8 @@ config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support - is enabled in the kernel build, they will not be used - automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but + is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be + used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but can be set to required (or optional) either in /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an option on the mount command. This support is disabled by @@ -2018,12 +2021,22 @@ config CIFS_UPCALL depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depends on KEYS help - Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact - userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos - tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers + Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses + userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) + Kerberos tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say N. +config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL + bool "DFS feature support (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL + depends on KEYS + help + Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace + helper utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to + IP addresses) which is needed for implicit mounts of DFS junction + points. If unsure, say N. + config NCP_FS tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)" depends on IPX!=n || INET diff --git a/fs/cifs/Makefile b/fs/cifs/Makefile index 45e42fb97c19..09898b8dc69b 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/Makefile +++ b/fs/cifs/Makefile @@ -9,3 +9,5 @@ cifs-y := cifsfs.o cifssmb.o cifs_debug.o connect.o dir.o file.o inode.o \ readdir.o ioctl.o sess.o export.o cifsacl.o cifs-$(CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL) += cifs_spnego.o + +cifs-$(CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL) += dns_resolve.o diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c index 093beaa3900d..000b4a5d3219 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ #include "cifs_fs_sb.h" #include <linux/mm.h> #include <linux/key-type.h> +#include "dns_resolve.h" #include "cifs_spnego.h" #define CIFS_MAGIC_NUMBER 0xFF534D42 /* the first four bytes of SMB PDUs */ @@ -1015,11 +1016,16 @@ init_cifs(void) if (rc) goto out_unregister_filesystem; #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL + rc = register_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver); + if (rc) + goto out_unregister_key_type; +#endif oplockThread = kthread_run(cifs_oplock_thread, NULL, "cifsoplockd"); if (IS_ERR(oplockThread)) { rc = PTR_ERR(oplockThread); cERROR(1, ("error %d create oplock thread", rc)); - goto out_unregister_key_type; + goto out_unregister_dfs_key_type; } dnotifyThread = kthread_run(cifs_dnotify_thread, NULL, "cifsdnotifyd"); @@ -1033,7 +1039,11 @@ init_cifs(void) out_stop_oplock_thread: kthread_stop(oplockThread); + out_unregister_dfs_key_type: +#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL + unregister_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver); out_unregister_key_type: +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL unregister_key_type(&cifs_spnego_key_type); out_unregister_filesystem: @@ -1059,6 +1069,9 @@ exit_cifs(void) #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS cifs_proc_clean(); #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL + unregister_key_type(&key_type_dns_resolver); +#endif #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL unregister_key_type(&cifs_spnego_key_type); #endif |