From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
To: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jacob Shivers <jshivers@redhat.com>,
Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>,
Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>,
Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>, Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>,
Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] smb: client: fix multiuser mount with krb5
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:59:12 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824195912.634526-1-pc@manguebit.org> (raw)
Customer reported that they could no longer mount their SMB shares
with multiuser mount option and krb5. Turned out that the client
wasn't duplicating username option when creating multiuser
connections, therefore failing to retrieve credentials as
cifs.upcall(8) couldn't find them in keytab.
Fix this by duplicating username option (if set) from original fs
context before creating multiuser connections with krb5.
Reproducer:
```
$ ktutil
ktutil: add_entry -password -p testuser -k 1 -e aes256-cts
Password for testuser@ZELDA.TEST:
ktutil: write_kt /etc/krb5.keytab
ktutil: quit
$ klist -ke
Keytab name: FILE:/etc/krb5.keytab
KVNO Principal
---- ----------------------------------------------------------------
1 testuser@ZELDA.TEST (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96)
$ mount.cifs //w22-root2/scratch /mnt/1 -o \
uid=1000,sec=krb5,username=testuser@ZELDA.TEST,multiuser
mount error(13): Permission denied
Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g. man mount.cifs) and
kernel log messages (dmesg)
```
Reported-by: Jacob Shivers <jshivers@redhat.com>
Fixes: 12b4c5d98cd7 ("smb: client: fix krb5 mount with username option")
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
Cc: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Cc: Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
Cc: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
---
fs/smb/client/connect.c | 21 ++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/connect.c b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
index bcd7f1ae99ba..b6e98eb31673 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
@@ -4189,14 +4189,25 @@ cifs_setup_session(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses,
return rc;
}
-static int
-cifs_set_vol_auth(struct smb3_fs_context *ctx, struct cifs_ses *ses)
+static int set_fs_context_auth(struct smb3_fs_context *ctx,
+ struct cifs_ses *ses)
{
ctx->sectype = ses->sectype;
- /* krb5 is special, since we don't need username or pw */
- if (ctx->sectype == Kerberos)
+ /*
+ * krb5 is special as we might need to pass username (passwordless) down
+ * to cifs.upcall(8) for keytab.
+ */
+ if (ctx->sectype == Kerberos) {
+ if (ses->user_name && ses->user_name[0]) {
+ ctx->username = kstrndup(ses->user_name,
+ CIFS_MAX_USERNAME_LEN,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!ctx->username)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
return 0;
+ }
return cifs_set_cifscreds(ctx, ses);
}
@@ -4236,7 +4247,7 @@ cifs_construct_tcon(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, kuid_t fsuid)
ctx->dfs_root_ses = master_tcon->ses->dfs_root_ses;
ctx->unicode = master_tcon->ses->unicode;
- rc = cifs_set_vol_auth(ctx, master_tcon->ses);
+ rc = set_fs_context_auth(ctx, master_tcon->ses);
if (rc) {
tcon = ERR_PTR(rc);
goto out;
--
2.55.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-24 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-24 19:59 Paulo Alcantara [this message]
2026-08-24 23:50 ` [PATCH] smb: client: fix multiuser mount with krb5 Namjae Jeon
2026-08-27 2:21 ` Paulo Alcantara
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