[CIFS] Add nodfs mount option
authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:35:21 +0000 (18:35 +0000)
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:35:21 +0000 (18:35 +0000)
Older samba server (eg. 3.0.24 from Debian etch) don't work correctly,
if DFS paths are used. Such server claim that they support DFS, but fail
to process some requests with DFS paths. Starting with Linux 2.6.26,
the cifs clients starts sending DFS paths in such situations, rendering
it unuseable with older samba servers.

The nodfs mount options forces a share to be used with non DFS paths,
even if the server claims, that it supports it.

Signed-off-by: Martin Koegler <mkoegler@auto.tuwien.ac.at>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
fs/cifs/README
fs/cifs/connect.c

index bd2343d..cbe26fe 100644 (file)
@@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
                with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most
                cifs servers do not yet support requesting advisory
                byte range locks).
+ nodfs          Disable DFS (global name space support) even if the
+               server claims to support it.  This can help work around
+               a problem with parsing of DFS paths with Samba 3.0.24 server.
  remount        remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
                or vice versa)
  cifsacl        Report mode bits (e.g. on stat) based on the Windows ACL for
index 4c13bcd..17ca8ce 100644 (file)
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ struct smb_vol {
        bool nocase:1;     /* request case insensitive filenames */
        bool nobrl:1;      /* disable sending byte range locks to srv */
        bool seal:1;       /* request transport encryption on share */
+       bool nodfs:1;
        unsigned int rsize;
        unsigned int wsize;
        unsigned int sockopt;
@@ -1218,6 +1219,8 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(char *options, const char *devname,
                        vol->sfu_emul = 1;
                } else if (strnicmp(data, "nosfu", 5) == 0) {
                        vol->sfu_emul = 0;
+               } else if (strnicmp(data, "nodfs", 5) == 0) {
+                       vol->nodfs = 1;
                } else if (strnicmp(data, "posixpaths", 10) == 0) {
                        vol->posix_paths = 1;
                } else if (strnicmp(data, "noposixpaths", 12) == 0) {
@@ -2197,6 +2200,12 @@ cifs_mount(struct super_block *sb, struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb,
                                                volume_info.UNC,
                                                tcon, cifs_sb->local_nls);
                                        cFYI(1, ("CIFS Tcon rc = %d", rc));
+                                       if (volume_info.nodfs) {
+                                               tcon->Flags &=
+                                                       ~SMB_SHARE_IS_IN_DFS;
+                                               cFYI(1, ("DFS disabled (%d)",
+                                                       tcon->Flags));
+                                       }
                                }
                                if (!rc) {
                                        atomic_inc(&pSesInfo->inUse);