On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:27:54 -0700
Yan Li <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, this patch fixed the problem in the current kernel we encountered when 
> trying to mount a directory shared from a Windows 8 Pro system.
> 
> Yan Li
> 
> On Mar 11, 2013, at 6:52 AM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > We've had several reports of people attempting to mount Windows 8 shares
> > and getting failures with a return code of -EINVAL. The default sec=
> > mode changed recently to sec=ntlmssp. With that, we expect and parse a
> > SPNEGO blob from the server in the NEGOTIATE reply.
> > 
> > The current decode_negTokenInit function first parses all of the
> > mechTypes and then tries to parse the rest of the negTokenInit reply.
> > The parser however currently expects a mechListMIC or nothing to follow the
> > mechTypes, but Windows 8 puts a mechToken field there instead to carry
> > some info for the new NegoEx stuff.
> > 
> > In practice, we don't do anything with the fields after the mechTypes
> > anyway so I don't see any real benefit in continuing to parse them.
> > This patch just has the kernel ignore the fields after the mechTypes.
> > We'll probably need to reinstate some of this if we ever want to support
> > NegoEx.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Jason Burgess <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Yan Li <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > fs/cifs/asn1.c | 53 +++++------------------------------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/cifs/asn1.c b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
> > index cfd1ce3..1d36db1 100644
> > --- a/fs/cifs/asn1.c
> > +++ b/fs/cifs/asn1.c
> > @@ -614,53 +614,10 @@ decode_negTokenInit(unsigned char *security_blob, int 
> > length,
> >             }
> >     }
> > 
> > -   /* mechlistMIC */
> > -   if (asn1_header_decode(&ctx, &end, &cls, &con, &tag) == 0) {
> > -           /* Check if we have reached the end of the blob, but with
> > -              no mechListMic (e.g. NTLMSSP instead of KRB5) */
> > -           if (ctx.error == ASN1_ERR_DEC_EMPTY)
> > -                   goto decode_negtoken_exit;
> > -           cFYI(1, "Error decoding last part negTokenInit exit3");
> > -           return 0;
> > -   } else if ((cls != ASN1_CTX) || (con != ASN1_CON)) {
> > -           /* tag = 3 indicating mechListMIC */
> > -           cFYI(1, "Exit 4 cls = %d con = %d tag = %d end = %p (%d)",
> > -                   cls, con, tag, end, *end);
> > -           return 0;
> > -   }
> > -
> > -   /* sequence */
> > -   if (asn1_header_decode(&ctx, &end, &cls, &con, &tag) == 0) {
> > -           cFYI(1, "Error decoding last part negTokenInit exit5");
> > -           return 0;
> > -   } else if ((cls != ASN1_UNI) || (con != ASN1_CON)
> > -              || (tag != ASN1_SEQ)) {
> > -           cFYI(1, "cls = %d con = %d tag = %d end = %p (%d)",
> > -                   cls, con, tag, end, *end);
> > -   }
> > -
> > -   /* sequence of */
> > -   if (asn1_header_decode(&ctx, &end, &cls, &con, &tag) == 0) {
> > -           cFYI(1, "Error decoding last part negTokenInit exit 7");
> > -           return 0;
> > -   } else if ((cls != ASN1_CTX) || (con != ASN1_CON)) {
> > -           cFYI(1, "Exit 8 cls = %d con = %d tag = %d end = %p (%d)",
> > -                   cls, con, tag, end, *end);
> > -           return 0;
> > -   }
> > -
> > -   /* general string */
> > -   if (asn1_header_decode(&ctx, &end, &cls, &con, &tag) == 0) {
> > -           cFYI(1, "Error decoding last part negTokenInit exit9");
> > -           return 0;
> > -   } else if ((cls != ASN1_UNI) || (con != ASN1_PRI)
> > -              || (tag != ASN1_GENSTR)) {
> > -           cFYI(1, "Exit10 cls = %d con = %d tag = %d end = %p (%d)",
> > -                   cls, con, tag, end, *end);
> > -           return 0;
> > -   }
> > -   cFYI(1, "Need to call asn1_octets_decode() function for %s",
> > -           ctx.pointer);   /* is this UTF-8 or ASCII? */
> > -decode_negtoken_exit:
> > +   /*
> > +    * We currently ignore anything at the end of the SPNEGO blob after
> > +    * the mechTypes have been parsed, since none of that info is
> > +    * used at the moment.
> > +    */
> >     return 1;
> > }
> > -- 
> > 1.7.11.7
> > 
> 
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Thanks for testing it...

Steve, I think this should probably go to stable too since 3.8 moved to
sec=ntlmssp as the default.


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