From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Werschlein , Steve French , Tom Talpey , Aurelien Aptel Subject: [PATCH 4.18 018/158] cifs: connect to servername instead of IP for IPC$ share Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:40:48 +0200 Message-Id: <20180917211711.645323138@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180917211710.383360696@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180917211710.383360696@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Werschlein commit 395a2076b4064f97d3fce03af15210ff2a7bb7f9 upstream. This patch is required allows access to a Microsoft fileserver failover cluster behind a 1:1 NAT firewall. The change also provides stronger context for authentication and share connection (see MS-SMB2 3.3.5.7 and MS-SRVS 3.1.6.8) as noted by Tom Talpey, and addresses comments about the buffer size for the UNC made by Aurélien Aptel. Signed-off-by: Thomas Werschlein Signed-off-by: Steve French CC: Tom Talpey Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel CC: Stable Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2523,7 +2523,7 @@ cifs_setup_ipc(struct cifs_ses *ses, str if (tcon == NULL) return -ENOMEM; - snprintf(unc, sizeof(unc), "\\\\%s\\IPC$", ses->serverName); + snprintf(unc, sizeof(unc), "\\\\%s\\IPC$", ses->server->hostname); /* cannot fail */ nls_codepage = load_nls_default();