We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code doesn't seem to ever pass a null username to the kernel, however.
It looks also like the kernel can take a sec=none option, but it only seems to look at it if the username is already NULL. This seems redundant and effectively makes sec=none useless. The following patch makes sec=none force an anonymous mount. I've briefly tested it and it seems to work. I suppose we could alternately do some stuff in userspace to make mount.cifs force a null username instead, but this seems more straightforward to me. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index cf40e24..330e290 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -1721,12 +1721,13 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, return -EINVAL; } - if (volume_info.username) { + if (volume_info.nullauth) { + cFYI(1,("null user")); + volume_info.username = NULL; + } else if (volume_info.username) { /* BB fixme parse for domain name here */ cFYI(1, ("Username: %s ", volume_info.username)); - } else if (volume_info.nullauth) { - cFYI(1,("null user")); } else { cifserror("No username specified"); /* In userspace mount helper we can get user name from alternate - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/