cifs: stop trying to use virtual circuits

Currently, we try to ensure that we use vcnum of 0 on the first
established session on a connection and then try to use a different
vcnum on each session after that.

This is a little odd, since there's no real reason to use a different
vcnum for each SMB session. I can only assume there was some confusion
between SMB sessions and VCs. That's somewhat understandable since they
both get created during SESSION_SETUP, but the documentation indicates
that they are really orthogonal. The comment on max_vcs in particular
looks quite misguided. An SMB session is already uniquely identified
by the SMB UID value -- there's no need to again uniquely ID with a
VC.

Furthermore, a vcnum of 0 is a cue to the server that it should release
any resources that were previously held by the client. This sounds like
a good thing, until you consider that:

a) it totally ignores the fact that other programs on the box (e.g.
smbclient) might have connections established to the server. Using a
vcnum of 0 causes them to get kicked off.

b) it causes problems with NAT. If several clients are connected to the
same server via the same NAT'ed address, whenever one connects to the
server it kicks off all the others, which then reconnect and kick off
the first one...ad nauseum.

I don't see any reason to ignore the advice in "Implementing CIFS" which
has a comprehensive treatment of virtual circuits. In there, it states
"...and contrary to the specs the client should always use a VcNumber of
one, never zero."

Have the client just use a hardcoded vcnum of 1, and stop abusing the
special behavior of vcnum 0.

Reported-by: Sauron99@gmx.de <sauron99@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index a3d74fea1623..4baf35949b51 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -463,7 +463,6 @@ decode_lanman_negprot_rsp(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, NEGOTIATE_RSP *pSMBr)
 			       cifs_max_pending);
 	set_credits(server, server->maxReq);
 	server->maxBuf = le16_to_cpu(rsp->MaxBufSize);
-	server->max_vcs = le16_to_cpu(rsp->MaxNumberVcs);
 	/* even though we do not use raw we might as well set this
 	accurately, in case we ever find a need for it */
 	if ((le16_to_cpu(rsp->RawMode) & RAW_ENABLE) == RAW_ENABLE) {