[PATCH 07/13] smb/server: add comment to FileSystemName of FileFsAttributeInformation

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2025-12-09T01:12:02Z

From: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>

Explained why FileSystemName is always set to "NTFS".

Link: https://github.com/namjaejeon/ksmbd/commit/84392651b0b740d2f59bcacd3b4cfff8ae0051a0
Signed-off-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong@kylinos.cn>
---
fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
index 7ea6144c692c..ddd031ad7689 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/smb2pdu.c
@@ -5497,6 +5497,13 @@ static int smb2_get_info_filesystem(struct ksmbd_work *work,
info->Attributes |= cpu_to_le32(FILE_NAMED_STREAMS);

info->MaxPathNameComponentLength = cpu_to_le32(stfs.f_namelen);
+ /*
+ * some application(potableapp) can not run on ksmbd share
+ * because only NTFS handle security setting on windows.
+ * So Although local fs(EXT4 or F2fs, etc) is not NTFS,
+ * ksmbd should show share as NTFS. Later, If needed, we can add
+ * fs type(s) parameter to change fs type user wanted.
+ */
len = smbConvertToUTF16((__le16 *)info->FileSystemName,
"NTFS", PATH_MAX, conn->local_nls, 0);
len = len * 2;
--
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