public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
To: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, sfrench@samba.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFQ PATCH] cifs: Change default security error message
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:30:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121129173053.GQ27196@axis.com> (raw)

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@axis.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
-- 
               Jesper Nilsson -- jesper.nilsson@axis.com

             reply	other threads:[~2012-11-29 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29 17:30 Jesper Nilsson [this message]
2012-11-29 17:52 ` [RFQ PATCH] cifs: Change default security error message Steve French
2012-11-29 18:47   ` Jesper Nilsson
2012-12-03 10:36     ` [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Fix cifs-tree git url Jesper Nilsson
2012-11-29 18:25 ` [RFQ PATCH] cifs: Change default security error message Jeff Layton
2012-11-29 18:54   ` Steve French
2012-11-29 20:36     ` Jeff Layton

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20121129173053.GQ27196@axis.com \
    --to=jesper.nilsson@axis.com \
    --cc=linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=sfrench@samba.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox