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| author | Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> | 2013-09-05 12:38:11 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> | 2013-09-08 19:24:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 30706a545417af50f07b8e47cc2189a2e20a4636 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dc52316aaa356ba728ec0b612799c314fb9d410 /fs/cifs | |
| parent | 73e216a8a42c0ef3d08071705c946c38fdbe12b0 (diff) | |
| download | linux-30706a545417af50f07b8e47cc2189a2e20a4636.tar.xz | |
cifs: create a new Documentation/ directory and move docfiles into it
Currently, we have a number of documentation files that live under
fs/cifs/. Generally, these don't get picked up by distro packagers,
since they're in a non-standard location. Move them to a new spot
under Documentation/ instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/AUTHORS | 55 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/CHANGES | 1065 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/README | 753 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/TODO | 129 |
4 files changed, 0 insertions, 2002 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/AUTHORS b/fs/cifs/AUTHORS deleted file mode 100644 index ea940b1..0000000 --- a/fs/cifs/AUTHORS +++ /dev/null @@ -1,55 +0,0 @@ -Original Author -=============== -Steve French (sfrench@samba.org) - -The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to: -Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS -improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue -this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to -the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features. -Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server -side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing -portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank -Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client) -for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like -operating systems. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John -Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module. Thanks to -the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical -Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally -thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement. - -Patch Contributors ------------------- -Zwane Mwaikambo -Andi Kleen -Amrut Joshi -Shobhit Dayal -Sergey Vlasov -Richard Hughes -Yury Umanets -Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work) -Domen Puncer -Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup) -Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug) -Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups) -Miklos Szeredi -Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version. -Asser Ferno (Change Notify support) -Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup -Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers) -Igor Mammedov (DFS support) -Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code) - -Test case and Bug Report contributors -------------------------------------- -Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports -and debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine, -Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori, -Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen, -Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special -mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor -bugs in error paths. Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro -and Dave Miller. - -And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for -finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES deleted file mode 100644 index bc0025c..0000000 --- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1065 +0,0 @@ -Version 1.62 ------------- -Add sockopt=TCP_NODELAY mount option. EA (xattr) routines hardened -to more strictly handle corrupt frames. - -Version 1.61 ------------- -Fix append problem to Samba servers (files opened with O_APPEND could -have duplicated data). Fix oops in cifs_lookup. Workaround problem -mounting to OS/400 Netserve. Fix oops in cifs_get_tcp_session. -Disable use of server inode numbers when server only -partially supports them (e.g. for one server querying inode numbers on -FindFirst fails but QPathInfo queries works). Fix oops with dfs in -cifs_put_smb_ses. Fix mmap to work on directio mounts (needed -for OpenOffice when on forcedirectio mount e.g.) - -Version 1.60 -------------- -Fix memory leak in reconnect. Fix oops in DFS mount error path. -Set s_maxbytes to smaller (the max that vfs can handle) so that -sendfile will now work over cifs mounts again. Add noforcegid -and noforceuid mount parameters. Fix small mem leak when using -ntlmv2. Fix 2nd mount to same server but with different port to -be allowed (rather than reusing the 1st port) - only when the -user explicitly overrides the port on the 2nd mount. - -Version 1.59 ------------- -Client uses server inode numbers (which are persistent) rather than -client generated ones by default (mount option "serverino" turned -on by default if server supports it). Add forceuid and forcegid -mount options (so that when negotiating unix extensions specifying -which uid mounted does not immediately force the server's reported -uids to be overridden). Add support for scope mount parm. Improve -hard link detection to use same inode for both. Do not set -read-only dos attribute on directories (for chmod) since Windows -explorer special cases this attribute bit for directories for -a different purpose. - -Version 1.58 ------------- -Guard against buffer overruns in various UCS-2 to UTF-8 string conversions -when the UTF-8 string is composed of unusually long (more than 4 byte) converted -characters. Add support for mounting root of a share which redirects immediately -to DFS target. Convert string conversion functions from Unicode to more -accurately mark string length before allocating memory (which may help the -rare cases where a UTF-8 string is much larger than the UCS2 string that -we converted from). Fix endianness of the vcnum field used during -session setup to distinguish multiple mounts to same server from different -userids. Raw NTLMSSP fixed (it requires /proc/fs/cifs/experimental -flag to be set to 2, and mount must enable krb5 to turn on extended security). -Performance of file create to Samba improved (posix create on lookup -removes 1 of 2 network requests sent on file create) - -Version 1.57 ------------- -Improve support for multiple security contexts to the same server. We -used to use the same "vcnumber" for all connections which could cause -the server to treat subsequent connections, especially those that -are authenticated as guest, as reconnections, invalidating the earlier -user's smb session. This fix allows cifs to mount multiple times to the -same server with different userids without risking invalidating earlier -established security contexts. fsync now sends SMB Flush operation -to better ensure that we wait for server to write all of the data to -server disk (not just write it over the network). Add new mount -parameter to allow user to disable sending the (slow) SMB flush on -fsync if desired (fsync still flushes all cached write data to the server). -Posix file open support added (turned off after one attempt if server -fails to support it properly, as with Samba server versions prior to 3.3.2) -Fix "redzone overwritten" bug in cifs_put_tcon (CIFSTcon may allocate too -little memory for the "nativeFileSystem" field returned by the server -during mount). Endian convert inode numbers if necessary (makes it easier -to compare inode numbers on network files from big endian systems). - -Version 1.56 ------------- -Add "forcemandatorylock" mount option to allow user to use mandatory -rather than posix (advisory) byte range locks, even though server would -support posix byte range locks. Fix query of root inode when prefixpath -specified and user does not have access to query information about the -top of the share. Fix problem in 2.6.28 resolving DFS paths to -Samba servers (worked to Windows). Fix rmdir so that pending search -(readdir) requests do not get invalid results which include the now -removed directory. Fix oops in cifs_dfs_ref.c when prefixpath is not reachable -when using DFS. Add better file create support to servers which support -the CIFS POSIX protocol extensions (this adds support for new flags -on create, and improves semantics for write of locked ranges). - -Version 1.55 ------------- -Various fixes to make delete of open files behavior more predictable -(when delete of an open file fails we mark the file as "delete-on-close" -in a way that more servers accept, but only if we can first rename the -file to a temporary name). Add experimental support for more safely -handling fcntl(F_SETLEASE). Convert cifs to using blocking tcp -sends, and also let tcp autotune the socket send and receive buffers. -This reduces the number of EAGAIN errors returned by TCP/IP in -high stress workloads (and the number of retries on socket writes -when sending large SMBWriteX requests). Fix case in which a portion of -data can in some cases not get written to the file on the server before the -file is closed. Fix DFS parsing to properly handle path consumed field, -and to handle certain codepage conversions better. Fix mount and -umount race that can cause oops in mount or umount or reconnect. - -Version 1.54 ------------- -Fix premature write failure on congested networks (we would give up -on EAGAIN from the socket too quickly on large writes). -Cifs_mkdir and cifs_create now respect the setgid bit on parent dir. -Fix endian problems in acl (mode from/to cifs acl) on bigendian -architectures. Fix problems with preserving timestamps on copying open -files (e.g. "cp -a") to Windows servers. For mkdir and create honor setgid bit -on parent directory when server supports Unix Extensions but not POSIX -create. Update cifs.upcall version to handle new Kerberos sec flags -(this requires update of cifs.upcall program from Samba). Fix memory leak -on dns_upcall (resolving DFS referralls). Fix plain text password -authentication (requires setting SecurityFlags to 0x30030 to enable -lanman and plain text though). Fix writes to be at correct offset when -file is open with O_APPEND and file is on a directio (forcediretio) mount. -Fix bug in rewinding readdir directory searches. Add nodfs mount option. - -Version 1.53 ------------- -DFS support added (Microsoft Distributed File System client support needed -for referrals which enable a hierarchical name space among servers). -Disable temporary caching of mode bits to servers which do not support -storing of mode (e.g. Windows servers, when client mounts without cifsacl -mount option) and add new "dynperm" mount option to enable temporary caching -of mode (enable old behavior). Fix hang on mount caused when server crashes -tcp session during negotiate protocol. - -Version 1.52 ------------- -Fix oops on second mount to server when null auth is used. -Enable experimental Kerberos support. Return writebehind errors on flush -and sync so that events like out of disk space get reported properly on -cached files. Fix setxattr failure to certain Samba versions. Fix mount -of second share to disconnected server session (autoreconnect on this). -Add ability to modify cifs acls for handling chmod (when mounted with -cifsacl flag). Fix prefixpath path separator so we can handle mounts -with prefixpaths longer than one directory (one path component) when -mounted to Windows servers. Fix slow file open when cifsacl -enabled. Fix memory leak in FindNext when the SMB call returns -EBADF. - - -Version 1.51 ------------- -Fix memory leak in statfs when mounted to very old servers (e.g. -Windows 9x). Add new feature "POSIX open" which allows servers -which support the current POSIX Extensions to provide better semantics -(e.g. delete for open files opened with posix open). Take into -account umask on posix mkdir not just older style mkdir. Add -ability to mount to IPC$ share (which allows CIFS named pipes to be -opened, read and written as if they were files). When 1st tree -connect fails (e.g. due to signing negotiation failure) fix -leak that causes cifsd not to stop and rmmod to fail to cleanup -cifs_request_buffers pool. Fix problem with POSIX Open/Mkdir on -bigendian architectures. Fix possible memory corruption when -EAGAIN returned on kern_recvmsg. Return better error if server -requires packet signing but client has disabled it. When mounted -with cifsacl mount option - mode bits are approximated based -on the contents of the ACL of the file or directory. When cifs -mount helper is missing convert make sure that UNC name -has backslash (not forward slash) between ip address of server -and the share name. - -Version 1.50 ------------- -Fix NTLMv2 signing. NFS server mounted over cifs works (if cifs mount is -done with "serverino" mount option). Add support for POSIX Unlink -(helps with certain sharing violation cases when server such as -Samba supports newer POSIX CIFS Protocol Extensions). Add "nounix" -mount option to allow disabling the CIFS Unix Extensions for just -that mount. Fix hang on spinlock in find_writable_file (race when -reopening file after session crash). Byte range unlock request to -windows server could unlock more bytes (on server copy of file) -than intended if start of unlock request is well before start of -a previous byte range lock that we issued. - -Version 1.49 ------------- -IPv6 support. Enable ipv6 addresses to be passed on mount (put the ipv6 -address after the "ip=" mount option, at least until mount.cifs is fixed to -handle DNS host to ipv6 name translation). Accept override of uid or gid -on mount even when Unix Extensions are negotiated (it used to be ignored -when Unix Extensions were ignored). This allows users to override the -default uid and gid for files when they are certain that the uids or -gids on the server do not match those of the client. Make "sec=none" -mount override username (so that null user connection is attempted) -to match what documentation said. Support for very large reads, over 127K, -available to some newer servers (such as Samba 3.0.26 and later but -note that it also requires setting CIFSMaxBufSize at module install -time to a larger value which may hurt performance in some cases). -Make sign option force signing (or fail if server does not support it). - -Version 1.48 ------------- -Fix mtime bouncing around from local idea of last write times to remote time. -Fix hang (in i_size_read) when simultaneous size update of same remote file -on smp system corrupts sequence number. Do not reread unnecessarily partial page -(which we are about to overwrite anyway) when writing out file opened rw. -When DOS attribute of file on non-Unix server's file changes on the server side -from read-only back to read-write, reflect this change in default file mode -(we had been leaving a file's mode read-only until the inode were reloaded). -Allow setting of attribute back to ATTR_NORMAL (removing readonly dos attribute -when archive dos attribute not set and we are changing mode back to writeable -on server which does not support the Unix Extensions). Remove read only dos -attribute on chmod when adding any write permission (ie on any of -user/group/other (not all of user/group/other ie 0222) when -mounted to windows. Add support for POSIX MkDir (slight performance -enhancement and eliminates the network race between the mkdir and set -path info of the mode). - - -Version 1.47 ------------- -Fix oops in list_del during mount caused by unaligned string. -Fix file corruption which could occur on some large file -copies caused by writepages page i/o completion bug. -Seek to SEEK_END forces check for update of file size for non-cached -files. Allow file size to be updated on remote extend of locally open, -non-cached file. Fix reconnect to newer Samba servers (or other servers -which support the CIFS Unix/POSIX extensions) so that we again tell the -server the Unix/POSIX cifs capabilities which we support (SetFSInfo). -Add experimental support for new POSIX Open/Mkdir (which returns -stat information on the open, and allows setting the mode). - -Version 1.46 ------------- -Support deep tree mounts. Better support OS/2, Win9x (DOS) time stamps. -Allow null user to be specified on mount ("username="). Do not return -EINVAL on readdir when filldir fails due to overwritten blocksize -(fixes FC problem). Return error in rename 2nd attempt retry (ie report -if rename by handle also fails, after rename by path fails, we were -not reporting whether the retry worked or not). Fix NTLMv2 to -work to Windows servers (mount with option "sec=ntlmv2"). - -Version 1.45 ------------- -Do not time out lockw calls when using posix extensions. Do not -time out requests if server still responding reasonably fast -on requests on other threads. Improve POSIX locking emulation, -(lock cancel now works, and unlock of merged range works even -to Windows servers now). Fix oops on mount to lanman servers -(win9x, os/2 etc.) when null password. Do not send listxattr -(SMB to query all EAs) if nouser_xattr specified. Fix SE Linux -problem (instantiate inodes/dentries in right order for readdir). - -Version 1.44 ------------- -Rewritten sessionsetup support, including support for legacy SMB -session setup needed for OS/2 and older servers such as Windows 95 and 98. -Fix oops on ls to OS/2 servers. Add support for level 1 FindFirst -so we can do search (ls etc.) to OS/2. Do not send NTCreateX -or recent levels of FindFirst unless server says it supports NT SMBs -(instead use legacy equivalents from LANMAN dialect). Fix to allow -NTLMv2 authentication support (now can use stronger password hashing -on mount if corresponding /proc/fs/cifs/SecurityFlags is set (0x4004). -Allow override of global cifs security flags on mount via "sec=" option(s). - -Version 1.43 ------------- -POSIX locking to servers which support CIFS POSIX Extensions -(disabled by default controlled by proc/fs/cifs/Experimental). -Handle conversion of long share names (especially Asian languages) -to Unicode during mount. Fix memory leak in sess struct on reconnect. -Fix rare oops after acpi suspend. Fix O_TRUNC opens to overwrite on -cifs open which helps rare case when setpathinfo fails or server does -not support it. - -Version 1.42 ------------- -Fix slow oplock break when mounted to different servers at the same time and -the tids match and we try to find matching fid on wrong server. Fix read -looping when signing required by server (2.6.16 kernel only). Fix readdir -vs. rename race which could cause each to hang. Return . and .. even -if server does not. Allow searches to skip first three entries and -begin at any location. Fix oops in find_writeable_file. - -Version 1.41 ------------- -Fix NTLMv2 security (can be enabled in /proc/fs/cifs) so customers can -configure stronger authentication. Fix sfu symlinks so they can -be followed (not just recognized). Fix wraparound of bcc on -read responses when buffer size over 64K and also fix wrap of -max smb buffer size when CIFSMaxBufSize over 64K. Fix oops in -cifs_user_read and cifs_readpages (when EAGAIN on send of smb -on socket is returned over and over). Add POSIX (advisory) byte range -locking support (requires server with newest CIFS UNIX Extensions -to the protocol implemented). Slow down negprot slightly in port 139 -RFC1001 case to give session_init time on buggy servers. - -Version 1.40 ------------- -Use fsuid (fsgid) more consistently instead of uid (gid). Improve performance -of readpages by eliminating one extra memcpy. Allow update of file size -from remote server even if file is open for write as long as mount is -directio. Recognize share mode security and send NTLM encrypted password -on tree connect if share mode negotiated. - -Version 1.39 ------------- -Defer close of a file handle slightly if pending writes depend on that handle -(this reduces the EBADF bad file handle errors that can be logged under heavy -stress on writes). Modify cifs Kconfig options to expose CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 -Fix SFU style symlinks and mknod needed for servers which do not support the -CIFS Unix Extensions. Fix setfacl/getfacl on bigendian. Timeout negative -dentries so files that the client sees as deleted but that later get created -on the server will be recognized. Add client side permission check on setattr. -Timeout stuck requests better (where server has never responded or sent corrupt -responses) - -Version 1.38 ------------- -Fix tcp socket retransmission timeouts (e.g. on ENOSPACE from the socket) -to be smaller at first (but increasing) so large write performance performance -over GigE is better. Do not hang thread on illegal byte range lock response -from Windows (Windows can send an RFC1001 size which does not match smb size) by -allowing an SMBs TCP length to be up to a few bytes longer than it should be. -wsize and rsize can now be larger than negotiated buffer size if server -supports large readx/writex, even when directio mount flag not specified. -Write size will in many cases now be 16K instead of 4K which greatly helps -file copy performance on lightly loaded networks. Fix oops in dnotify -when experimental config flag enabled. Make cifsFYI more granular. - -Version 1.37 ------------- -Fix readdir caching when unlink removes file in current search buffer, -and this is followed by a rewind search to just before the deleted entry. -Do not attempt to set ctime unless atime and/or mtime change requested -(most servers throw it away anyway). Fix length check of received smbs -to be more accurate. Fix big endian problem with mapchars mount option, -and with a field returned by statfs. - -Version 1.36 ------------- -Add support for mounting to older pre-CIFS servers such as Windows9x and ME. -For these older servers, add option for passing netbios name of server in -on mount (servernetbiosname). Add suspend support for power management, to -avoid cifsd thread preventing software suspend from working. -Add mount option for disabling the default behavior of sending byte range lock -requests to the server (necessary for certain applications which break with -mandatory lock behavior such as Evolution), and also mount option for -requesting case insensitive matching for path based requests (requesting -case sensitive is the default). - -Version 1.35 ------------- -Add writepage performance improvements. Fix path name conversions -for long filenames on mounts which were done with "mapchars" mount option -specified. Ensure multiplex ids do not collide. Fix case in which -rmmod can oops if done soon after last unmount. Fix truncated -search (readdir) output when resume filename was a long filename. -Fix filename conversion when mapchars mount option was specified and -filename was a long filename. - -Version 1.34 ------------- -Fix error mapping of the TOO_MANY_LINKS (hardlinks) case. -Do not oops if root user kills cifs oplock kernel thread or -kills the cifsd thread (NB: killing the cifs kernel threads is not -recommended, unmount and rmmod cifs will kill them when they are -no longer needed). Fix readdir to ASCII servers (ie older servers -which do not support Unicode) and also require asterisk. -Fix out of memory case in which data could be written one page -off in the page cache. - -Version 1.33 ------------- -Fix caching problem, in which readdir of directory containing a file -which was cached could cause the file's time stamp to be updated -without invalidating the readahead data (so we could get stale -file data on the client for that file even as the server copy changed). -Cleanup response processing so cifsd can not loop when abnormally -terminated. - - -Version 1.32 ------------- -Fix oops in ls when Transact2 FindFirst (or FindNext) returns more than one -transact response for an SMB request and search entry split across two frames. -Add support for lsattr (getting ext2/ext3/reiserfs attr flags from the server) -as new protocol extensions. Do not send Get/Set calls for POSIX ACLs -unless server explicitly claims to support them in CIFS Unix extensions -POSIX ACL capability bit. Fix packet signing when multiuser mounting with -different users from the same client to the same server. Fix oops in -cifs_close. Add mount option for remapping reserved characters in -filenames (also allow recognizing files with created by SFU which have any -of these seven reserved characters, except backslash, to be recognized). -Fix invalid transact2 message (we were sometimes trying to interpret -oplock breaks as SMB responses). Add ioctl for checking that the -current uid matches the uid of the mounter (needed by umount.cifs). -Reduce the number of large buffer allocations in cifs response processing -(significantly reduces memory pressure under heavy stress with multiple -processes accessing the same server at the same time). - -Version 1.31 ------------- -Fix updates of DOS attributes and time fields so that files on NT4 servers -do not get marked delete on close. Display sizes of cifs buffer pools in -cifs stats. Fix oops in unmount when cifsd thread being killed by -shutdown. Add generic readv/writev and aio support. Report inode numbers -consistently in readdir and lookup (when serverino mount option is -specified use the inode number that the server reports - for both lookup -and readdir, otherwise by default the locally generated inode number is used -for inodes created in either path since servers are not always able to -provide unique inode numbers when exporting multiple volumes from under one -sharename). - -Version 1.30 ------------- -Allow new nouser_xattr mount parm to disable xattr support for user namespace. -Do not flag user_xattr mount parm in dmesg. Retry failures setting file time -(mostly affects NT4 servers) by retry with handle based network operation. -Add new POSIX Query FS Info for returning statfs info more accurately. -Handle passwords with multiple commas in them. - -Version 1.29 ------------- -Fix default mode in sysfs of cifs module parms. Remove old readdir routine. -Fix capabilities flags for large readx so as to allow reads larger than 64K. - -Version 1.28 ------------- -Add module init parm for large SMB buffer size (to allow it to be changed -from its default of 16K) which is especially useful for large file copy -when mounting with the directio mount option. Fix oops after -returning from mount when experimental ExtendedSecurity enabled and -SpnegoNegotiated returning invalid error. Fix case to retry better when -peek returns from 1 to 3 bytes on socket which should have more data. -Fixed path based calls (such as cifs lookup) to handle path names -longer than 530 (now can handle PATH_MAX). Fix pass through authentication -from Samba server to DC (Samba required dummy LM password). - -Version 1.27 ------------- -Turn off DNOTIFY (directory change notification support) by default -(unless built with the experimental flag) to fix hang with KDE -file browser. Fix DNOTIFY flag mappings. Fix hang (in wait_event -waiting on an SMB response) in SendReceive when session dies but -reconnects quickly from another task. Add module init parms for -minimum number of large and small network buffers in the buffer pools, -and for the maximum number of simultaneous requests. - -Version 1.26 ------------- -Add setfacl support to allow setting of ACLs remotely to Samba 3.10 and later -and other POSIX CIFS compliant servers. Fix error mapping for getfacl -to EOPNOTSUPP when server does not support posix acls on the wire. Fix -improperly zeroed buffer in CIFS Unix extensions set times call. - -Version 1.25 ------------- -Fix internationalization problem in cifs readdir with filenames that map to -longer UTF-8 strings than the string on the wire was in Unicode. Add workaround -for readdir to netapp servers. Fix search rewind (seek into readdir to return -non-consecutive entries). Do not do readdir when server negotiates -buffer size to small to fit filename. Add support for reading POSIX ACLs from -the server (add also acl and noacl mount options). - -Version 1.24 ------------- -Optionally allow using server side inode numbers, rather than client generated -ones by specifying mount option "serverino" - this is required for some apps -to work which double check hardlinked files and have persistent inode numbers. - -Version 1.23 ------------- -Multiple bigendian fixes. On little endian systems (for reconnect after -network failure) fix tcp session reconnect code so we do not try first -to reconnect on reverse of port 445. Treat reparse points (NTFS junctions) -as directories rather than symlinks because we can do follow link on them. - -Version 1.22 ------------- -Add config option to enable XATTR (extended attribute) support, mapping -xattr names in the "user." namespace space to SMB/CIFS EAs. Lots of -minor fixes pointed out by the Stanford SWAT checker (mostly missing -or out of order NULL pointer checks in little used error paths). - -Version 1.21 ------------- -Add new mount parm to control whether mode check (generic_permission) is done -on the client. If Unix extensions are enabled and the uids on the client -and server do not match, client permission checks are meaningless on -server uids that do not exist on the client (this does not affect the -normal ACL check which occurs on the server). Fix default uid -on mknod to match create and mkdir. Add optional mount parm to allow -override of the default uid behavior (in which the server sets the uid -and gid of newly created files). Normally for network filesystem mounts -user want the server to set the uid/gid on newly created files (rather than -using uid of the client processes you would in a local filesystem). - -Version 1.20 ------------- -Make transaction counts more consistent. Merge /proc/fs/cifs/SimultaneousOps -info into /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData. Fix oops in rare oops in readdir -(in build_wildcard_path_from_dentry). Fix mknod to pass type field -(block/char/fifo) properly. Remove spurious mount warning log entry when -credentials passed as mount argument. Set major/minor device number in -inode for block and char devices when unix extensions enabled. - -Version 1.19 ------------- -Fix /proc/fs/cifs/Stats and DebugData display to handle larger -amounts of return data. Properly limit requests to MAX_REQ (50 -is the usual maximum active multiplex SMB/CIFS requests per server). -Do not kill cifsd (and thus hurt the other SMB session) when more than one -session to the same server (but with different userids) exists and one -of the two user's smb sessions is being removed while leaving the other. -Do not loop reconnecting in cifsd demultiplex thread when admin -kills the thread without going through unmount. - -Version 1.18 ------------- -Do not rename hardlinked files (since that should be a noop). Flush -cached write behind data when reopening a file after session abend, -except when already in write. Grab per socket sem during reconnect -to avoid oops in sendmsg if overlapping with reconnect. Do not -reset cached inode file size on readdir for files open for write on -client. - - -Version 1.17 ------------- -Update number of blocks in file so du command is happier (in Linux a fake -blocksize of 512 is required for calculating number of blocks in inode). -Fix prepare write of partial pages to read in data from server if possible. -Fix race on tcpStatus field between unmount and reconnection code, causing -cifsd process sometimes to hang around forever. Improve out of memory -checks in cifs_filldir - -Version 1.16 ------------- -Fix incorrect file size in file handle based setattr on big endian hardware. -Fix oops in build_path_from_dentry when out of memory. Add checks for invalid -and closing file structs in writepage/partialpagewrite. Add statistics -for each mounted share (new menuconfig option). Fix endianness problem in -volume information displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData (only affects -affects big endian architectures). Prevent renames while constructing -path names for open, mkdir and rmdir. - -Version 1.15 ------------- -Change to mempools for alloc smb request buffers and multiplex structs -to better handle low memory problems (and potential deadlocks). - -Version 1.14 ------------- -Fix incomplete listings of large directories on Samba servers when Unix -extensions enabled. Fix oops when smb_buffer can not be allocated. Fix -rename deadlock when writing out dirty pages at same time. - -Version 1.13 ------------- -Fix open of files in which O_CREATE can cause the mode to change in -some cases. Fix case in which retry of write overlaps file close. -Fix PPC64 build error. Reduce excessive stack usage in smb password -hashing. Fix overwrite of Linux user's view of file mode to Windows servers. - -Version 1.12 ------------- -Fixes for large file copy, signal handling, socket retry, buffer -allocation and low memory situations. - -Version 1.11 ------------- -Better port 139 support to Windows servers (RFC1001/RFC1002 Session_Initialize) -also now allowing support for specifying client netbiosname. NT4 support added. - -Version 1.10 ------------- -Fix reconnection (and certain failed mounts) to properly wake up the -blocked users thread so it does not seem hung (in some cases was blocked -until the cifs receive timeout expired). Fix spurious error logging -to kernel log when application with open network files killed. - -Version 1.09 ------------- -Fix /proc/fs module unload warning message (that could be logged -to the kernel log). Fix intermittent failure in connectathon -test7 (hardlink count not immediately refreshed in case in which -inode metadata can be incorrectly kept cached when time near zero) - -Version 1.08 ------------- -Allow file_mode and dir_mode (specified at mount time) to be enforced -locally (the server already enforced its own ACLs too) for servers -that do not report the correct mode (do not support the -CIFS Unix Extensions). - -Version 1.07 ------------- -Fix some small memory leaks in some unmount error paths. Fix major leak -of cache pages in readpages causing multiple read oriented stress -testcases (including fsx, and even large file copy) to fail over time. - -Version 1.06 ------------- -Send NTCreateX with ATTR_POSIX if Linux/Unix extensions negotiated with server. -This allows files that differ only in case and improves performance of file -creation and file open to such servers. Fix semaphore conflict which causes -slow delete of open file to Samba (which unfortunately can cause an oplock -break to self while vfs_unlink held i_sem) which can hang for 20 seconds. - -Version 1.05 ------------- -fixes to cifs_readpages for fsx test case - -Version 1.04 ------------- -Fix caching data integrity bug when extending file size especially when no -oplock on file. Fix spurious logging of valid already parsed mount options -that are parsed outside of the cifs vfs such as nosuid. - - -Version 1.03 ------------- -Connect to server when port number override not specified, and tcp port -unitialized. Reset search to restart at correct file when kernel routine -filldir returns error during large directory searches (readdir). - -Version 1.02 ------------- -Fix caching problem when files opened by multiple clients in which -page cache could contain stale data, and write through did -not occur often enough while file was still open when read ahead -(read oplock) not allowed. Treat "sep=" when first mount option -as an override of comma as the default separator between mount -options. - -Version 1.01 ------------- -Allow passwords longer than 16 bytes. Allow null password string. - -Version 1.00 ------------- -Gracefully clean up failed mounts when attempting to mount to servers such as -Windows 98 that terminate tcp sessions during protocol negotiation. Handle -embedded commas in mount parsing of passwords. - -Version 0.99 ------------- -Invalidate local inode cached pages on oplock break and when last file -instance is closed so that the client does not continue using stale local -copy rather than later modified server copy of file. Do not reconnect -when server drops the tcp session prematurely before negotiate -protocol response. Fix oops in reopen_file when dentry freed. Allow -the support for CIFS Unix Extensions to be disabled via proc interface. - -Version 0.98 ------------- -Fix hang in commit_write during reconnection of open files under heavy load. -Fix unload_nls oops in a mount failure path. Serialize writes to same socket -which also fixes any possible races when cifs signatures are enabled in SMBs -being sent out of signature sequence number order. - -Version 0.97 ------------- -Fix byte range locking bug (endian problem) causing bad offset and -length. - -Version 0.96 ------------- -Fix oops (in send_sig) caused by CIFS unmount code trying to -wake up the demultiplex thread after it had exited. Do not log -error on harmless oplock release of closed handle. - -Version 0.95 ------------- -Fix unsafe global variable usage and password hash failure on gcc 3.3.1 -Fix problem reconnecting secondary mounts to same server after session -failure. Fix invalid dentry - race in mkdir when directory gets created -by another client between the lookup and mkdir. - -Version 0.94 ------------- -Fix to list processing in reopen_files. Fix reconnection when server hung -but tcpip session still alive. Set proper timeout on socket read. - -Version 0.93 ------------- -Add missing mount options including iocharset. SMP fixes in write and open. -Fix errors in reconnecting after TCP session failure. Fix module unloading -of default nls codepage - -Version 0.92 ------------- -Active smb transactions should never go negative (fix double FreeXid). Fix -list processing in file routines. Check return code on kmalloc in open. -Fix spinlock usage for SMP. - -Version 0.91 ------------- -Fix oops in reopen_files when invalid dentry. drop dentry on server rename -and on revalidate errors. Fix cases where pid is now tgid. Fix return code -on create hard link when server does not support them. - -Version 0.90 ------------- -Fix scheduling while atomic error in getting inode info on newly created file. -Fix truncate of existing files opened with O_CREAT but not O_TRUNC set. - -Version 0.89 ------------- -Fix oops on write to dead tcp session. Remove error log write for case when file open -O_CREAT but not O_EXCL - -Version 0.88 ------------- -Fix non-POSIX behavior on rename of open file and delete of open file by taking -advantage of trans2 SetFileInfo rename facility if available on target server. -Retry on ENOSPC and EAGAIN socket errors. - -Version 0.87 ------------- -Fix oops on big endian readdir. Set blksize to be even power of two (2**blkbits) to fix -allocation size miscalculation. After oplock token lost do not read through -cache. - -Version 0.86 ------------- -Fix oops on empty file readahead. Fix for file size handling for locally cached files. - -Version 0.85 ------------- -Fix oops in mkdir when server fails to return inode info. Fix oops in reopen_files -during auto reconnection to server after server recovered from failure. - -Version 0.84 ------------- -Finish support for Linux 2.5 open/create changes, which removes the -redundant NTCreate/QPathInfo/close that was sent during file create. -Enable oplock by default. Enable packet signing by default (needed to -access many recent Windows servers) - -Version 0.83 ------------- -Fix oops when mounting to long server names caused by inverted parms to kmalloc. -Fix MultiuserMount (/proc/fs/cifs configuration setting) so that when enabled -we will choose a cifs user session (smb uid) that better matches the local -uid if a) the mount uid does not match the current uid and b) we have another -session to the same server (ip address) for a different mount which -matches the current local uid. - -Version 0.82 ------------- -Add support for mknod of block or character devices. Fix oplock -code (distributed caching) to properly send response to oplock -break from server. - -Version 0.81 ------------- -Finish up CIFS packet digital signing for the default -NTLM security case. This should help Windows 2003 -network interoperability since it is common for -packet signing to be required now. Fix statfs (stat -f) -which recently started returning errors due to -invalid value (-1 instead of 0) being set in the -struct kstatfs f_ffiles field. - -Version 0.80 ------------ -Fix oops on stopping oplock thread when removing cifs when -built as module. - -Version 0.79 ------------- -Fix mount options for ro (readonly), uid, gid and file and directory mode. - -Version 0.78 ------------- -Fix errors displayed on failed mounts to be more understandable. -Fixed various incorrect or misleading smb to posix error code mappings. - -Version 0.77 ------------- -Fix display of NTFS DFS junctions to display as symlinks. -They are the network equivalent. Fix oops in -cifs_partialpagewrite caused by missing spinlock protection -of openfile linked list. Allow writebehind caching errors to -be returned to the application at file close. - -Version 0.76 ------------- -Clean up options displayed in /proc/mounts by show_options to -be more consistent with other filesystems. - -Version 0.75 ------------- -Fix delete of readonly file to Windows servers. Reflect -presence or absence of read only dos attribute in mode -bits for servers that do not support CIFS Unix extensions. -Fix shortened results on readdir of large directories to -servers supporting CIFS Unix extensions (caused by -incorrect resume key). - -Version 0.74 ------------- -Fix truncate bug (set file size) that could cause hangs e.g. running fsx - -Version 0.73 ------------- -unload nls if mount fails. - -Version 0.72 ------------- -Add resume key support to search (readdir) code to workaround -Windows bug. Add /proc/fs/cifs/LookupCacheEnable which -allows disabling caching of attribute information for -lookups. - -Version 0.71 ------------- -Add more oplock handling (distributed caching code). Remove -dead code. Remove excessive stack space utilization from -symlink routines. - -Version 0.70 ------------- -Fix oops in get dfs referral (triggered when null path sent in to -mount). Add support for overriding rsize at mount time. - -Version 0.69 ------------- -Fix buffer overrun in readdir which caused intermittent kernel oopses. -Fix writepage code to release kmap on write data. Allow "-ip=" new -mount option to be passed in on parameter distinct from the first part -(server name portion of) the UNC name. Allow override of the -tcp port of the target server via new mount option "-port=" - -Version 0.68 ------------- -Fix search handle leak on rewind. Fix setuid and gid so that they are -reflected in the local inode immediately. Cleanup of whitespace -to make 2.4 and 2.5 versions more consistent. - - -Version 0.67 ------------- -Fix signal sending so that captive thread (cifsd) exits on umount -(which was causing the warning in kmem_cache_free of the request buffers -at rmmod time). This had broken as a sideeffect of the recent global -kernel change to daemonize. Fix memory leak in readdir code which -showed up in "ls -R" (and applications that did search rewinding). - -Version 0.66 ------------- -Reconnect tids and fids after session reconnection (still do not -reconnect byte range locks though). Fix problem caching -lookup information for directory inodes, improving performance, -especially in deep directory trees. Fix various build warnings. - -Version 0.65 ------------- -Finish fixes to commit write for caching/readahead consistency. fsx -now works to Samba servers. Fix oops caused when readahead -was interrupted by a signal. - -Version 0.64 ------------- -Fix data corruption (in partial page after truncate) that caused fsx to -fail to Windows servers. Cleaned up some extraneous error logging in -common error paths. Add generic sendfile support. - -Version 0.63 ------------- -Fix memory leak in AllocMidQEntry. -Finish reconnection logic, so connection with server can be dropped -(or server rebooted) and the cifs client will reconnect. - -Version 0.62 ------------- -Fix temporary socket leak when bad userid or password specified -(or other SMBSessSetup failure). Increase maximum buffer size to slightly -over 16K to allow negotiation of up to Samba and Windows server default read -sizes. Add support for readpages - -Version 0.61 ------------- -Fix oops when username not passed in on mount. Extensive fixes and improvements -to error logging (strip redundant newlines, change debug macros to ensure newline -passed in and to be more consistent). Fix writepage wrong file handle problem, -a readonly file handle could be incorrectly used to attempt to write out -file updates through the page cache to multiply open files. This could cause -the iozone benchmark to fail on the fwrite test. Fix bug mounting two different -shares to the same Windows server when using different usernames -(doing this to Samba servers worked but Windows was rejecting it) - now it is -possible to use different userids when connecting to the same server from a -Linux client. Fix oops when treeDisconnect called during unmount on -previously freed socket. - -Version 0.60 ------------- -Fix oops in readpages caused by not setting address space operations in inode in -rare code path. - -Version 0.59 ------------- -Includes support for deleting of open files and renaming over existing files (per POSIX -requirement). Add readlink support for Windows junction points (directory symlinks). - -Version 0.58 ------------- -Changed read and write to go through pagecache. Added additional address space operations. -Memory mapped operations now working. - -Version 0.57 ------------- -Added writepage code for additional memory mapping support. Fixed leak in xids causing -the simultaneous operations counter (/proc/fs/cifs/SimultaneousOps) to increase on -every stat call. Additional formatting cleanup. - -Version 0.56 ------------- -Fix bigendian bug in order of time conversion. Merge 2.5 to 2.4 version. Formatting cleanup. - -Version 0.55 ------------- -Fixes from Zwane Mwaikambo for adding missing return code checking in a few places. -Also included a modified version of his fix to protect global list manipulation of -the smb session and tree connection and mid related global variables. - -Version 0.54 ------------- -Fix problem with captive thread hanging around at unmount time. Adjust to 2.5.42-pre -changes to superblock layout. Remove wasteful allocation of smb buffers (now the send -buffer is reused for responses). Add more oplock handling. Additional minor cleanup. - -Version 0.53 ------------- -More stylistic updates to better match kernel style. Add additional statistics -for filesystem which can be viewed via /proc/fs/cifs. Add more pieces of NTLMv2 -and CIFS Packet Signing enablement. - -Version 0.52 ------------- -Replace call to sleep_on with safer wait_on_event. -Make stylistic changes to better match kernel style recommendations. -Remove most typedef usage (except for the PDUs themselves). - -Version 0.51 ------------- -Update mount so the -unc mount option is no longer required (the ip address can be specified -in a UNC style device name. Implementation of readpage/writepage started. - -Version 0.50 ------------- -Fix intermittent problem with incorrect smb header checking on badly -fragmented tcp responses - -Version 0.49 ------------- -Fixes to setting of allocation size and file size. - -Version 0.48 ------------- -Various 2.5.38 fixes. Now works on 2.5.38 - -Version 0.47 ------------- -Prepare for 2.5 kernel merge. Remove ifdefs. - -Version 0.46 ------------- -Socket buffer management fixes. Fix dual free. - -Version 0.45 ------------- -Various big endian fixes for hardlinks and symlinks and also for dfs. - -Version 0.44 ------------- -Various big endian fixes for servers with Unix extensions such as Samba - -Version 0.43 ------------- -Various FindNext fixes for incorrect filenames on large directory searches on big endian -clients. basic posix file i/o tests now work on big endian machines, not just le - -Version 0.42 ------------- -SessionSetup and NegotiateProtocol now work from Big Endian machines. -Various Big Endian fixes found during testing on the Linux on 390. Various fixes for compatibility with older -versions of 2.4 kernel (now builds and works again on kernels at least as early as 2.4.7). - -Version 0.41 ------------- -Various minor fixes for Connectathon Posix "basic" file i/o test suite. Directory caching fixed so hardlinked -files now return the correct number of links on fstat as they are repeatedly linked and unlinked. - -Version 0.40 ------------- -Implemented "Raw" (i.e. not encapsulated in SPNEGO) NTLMSSP (i.e. the Security Provider Interface used to negotiate -session advanced session authentication). Raw NTLMSSP is preferred by Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP. -Began implementing support for SPNEGO encapsulation of NTLMSSP based session authentication blobs -(which is the mechanism preferred by Windows 2000 server in the absence of Kerberos). - -Version 0.38 ------------- -Introduced optional mount helper utility mount.cifs and made coreq changes to cifs vfs to enable -it. Fixed a few bugs in the DFS code (e.g. bcc two bytes too short and incorrect uid in PDU). - -Version 0.37 ------------- -Rewrote much of connection and mount/unmount logic to handle bugs with -multiple uses to same share, multiple users to same server etc. - -Version 0.36 ------------- -Fixed major problem with dentry corruption (missing call to dput) - -Version 0.35 ------------- -Rewrite of readdir code to fix bug. Various fixes for bigendian machines. -Begin adding oplock support. Multiusermount and oplockEnabled flags added to /proc/fs/cifs -although corresponding function not fully implemented in the vfs yet - -Version 0.34 ------------- -Fixed dentry caching bug, misc. cleanup - -Version 0.33 ------------- -Fixed 2.5 support to handle build and configure changes as well as misc. 2.5 changes. Now can build -on current 2.5 beta version (2.5.24) of the Linux kernel as well as on 2.4 Linux kernels. -Support for STATUS codes (newer 32 bit NT error codes) added. DFS support begun to be added. - -Version 0.32 ------------- -Unix extensions (symlink, readlink, hardlink, chmod and some chgrp and chown) implemented -and tested against Samba 2.2.5 - - -Version 0.31 ------------- -1) Fixed lockrange to be correct (it was one byte too short) - -2) Fixed GETLK (i.e. the fcntl call to test a range of bytes in a file to see if locked) to correctly -show range as locked when there is a conflict with an existing lock. - -3) default file perms are now 2767 (indicating support for mandatory locks) instead of 777 for directories -in most cases. Eventually will offer optional ability to query server for the correct perms. - -3) Fixed eventual trap when mounting twice to different shares on the same server when the first succeeded -but the second one was invalid and failed (the second one was incorrectly disconnecting the tcp and smb -session) - -4) Fixed error logging of valid mount options - -5) Removed logging of password field. - -6) Moved negotiate, treeDisconnect and uloggoffX (only tConx and SessSetup remain in connect.c) to cifssmb.c -and cleaned them up and made them more consistent with other cifs functions. - -7) Server support for Unix extensions is now fully detected and FindFirst is implemented both ways -(with or without Unix extensions) but FindNext and QueryPathInfo with the Unix extensions are not completed, -nor is the symlink support using the Unix extensions - -8) Started adding the readlink and follow_link code - -Version 0.3 ------------ -Initial drop - diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README deleted file mode 100644 index 2d5622f..0000000 --- a/fs/cifs/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,753 +0,0 @@ -The CIFS VFS support for Linux supports many advanced network filesystem -features such as hierarchical dfs like namespace, hardlinks, locking and more. -It was designed to comply with the SNIA CIFS Technical Reference (which -supersedes the 1992 X/Open SMB Standard) as well as to perform best practice -practical interoperability with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Samba and equivalent -servers. This code was developed in participation with the Protocol Freedom -Information Foundation. - -Please see - http://protocolfreedom.org/ and - http://samba.org/samba/PFIF/ -for more details. - - -For questions or bug reports please contact: - sfrench@samba.org (sfrench@us.ibm.com) - -Build instructions: -================== -For Linux 2.4: -1) Get the kernel source (e.g.from http://www.kernel.org) -and download the cifs vfs source (see the project page -at http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html) -and change directory into the top of the kernel directory -then patch the kernel (e.g. "patch -p1 < cifs_24.patch") -to add the cifs vfs to your kernel configure options if -it has not already been added (e.g. current SuSE and UL -users do not need to apply the cifs_24.patch since the cifs vfs is -already in the kernel configure menu) and then -mkdir linux/fs/cifs and then copy the current cifs vfs files from -the cifs download to your kernel build directory e.g. - - cp <cifs_download_dir>/fs/cifs/* to <kernel_download_dir>/fs/cifs - -2) make menuconfig (or make xconfig) -3) select cifs from within the network filesystem choices -4) save and exit -5) make dep -6) make modules (or "make" if CIFS VFS not to be built as a module) - -For Linux 2.6: -1) Download the kernel (e.g. from http://www.kernel.org) -and change directory into the top of the kernel directory tree -(e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.5.73) -2) make menuconfig (or make xconfig) -3) select cifs from within the network filesystem choices -4) save and exit -5) make - - -Installation instructions: -========================= -If you have built the CIFS vfs as module (successfully) simply -type "make modules_install" (or if you prefer, manually copy the file to -the modules directory e.g. /lib/modules/2.4.10-4GB/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.o). - -If you have built the CIFS vfs into the kernel itself, follow the instructions -for your distribution on how to install a new kernel (usually you -would simply type "make install"). - -If you do not have the utility mount.cifs (in the Samba 3.0 source tree and on -the CIFS VFS web site) copy it to the same directory in which mount.smbfs and -similar files reside (usually /sbin). Although the helper software is not -required, mount.cifs is recommended. Eventually the Samba 3.0 utility program -"net" may also be helpful since it may someday provide easier mount syntax for -users who are used to Windows e.g. - net use <mount point> <UNC name or cifs URL> -Note that running the Winbind pam/nss module (logon service) on all of your -Linux clients is useful in mapping Uids and Gids consistently across the -domain to the proper network user. The mount.cifs mount helper can be -trivially built from Samba 3.0 or later source e.g. by executing: - - gcc samba/source/client/mount.cifs.c -o mount.cifs - -If cifs is built as a module, then the size and number of network buffers -and maximum number of simultaneous requests to one server can be configured. -Changing these from their defaults is not recommended. By executing modinfo - modinfo kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko -on kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko the list of configuration changes that can be made -at module initialization time (by running insmod cifs.ko) can be seen. - -Allowing User Mounts -==================== -To permit users to mount and unmount over directories they own is possible -with the cifs vfs. A way to enable such mounting is to mark the mount.cifs -utility as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/mount.cifs). To enable users to -umount shares they mount requires -1) mount.cifs version 1.4 or later -2) an entry for the share in /etc/fstab indicating that a user may -unmount it e.g. -//server/usersharename /mnt/username cifs user 0 0 - -Note that when the mount.cifs utility is run suid (allowing user mounts), -in order to reduce risks, the "nosuid" mount flag is passed in on mount to -disallow execution of an suid program mounted on the remote target. -When mount is executed as root, nosuid is not passed in by default, -and execution of suid programs on the remote target would be enabled -by default. This can be changed, as with nfs and other filesystems, -by simply specifying "nosuid" among the mount options. For user mounts -though to be able to pass the suid flag to mount requires rebuilding -mount.cifs with the following flag: - - gcc samba/source/client/mount.cifs.c -DCIFS_ALLOW_USR_SUID -o mount.cifs - -There is a corresponding manual page for cifs mounting in the Samba 3.0 and -later source tree in docs/manpages/mount.cifs.8 - -Allowing User Unmounts -====================== -To permit users to ummount directories that they have user mounted (see above), -the utility umount.cifs may be used. It may be invoked directly, or if -umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount can invoke the cifs umount helper -(at least for most versions of the umount utility) for umount of cifs -mounts, unless umount is invoked with -i (which will avoid invoking a umount -helper). As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked -as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs") or equivalent (some distributions -allow adding entries to a file to the /etc/permissions file to achieve the -equivalent suid effect). For this utility to succeed the target path -must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must match the uid -of the user who mounted the resource. - -Also note that the customary way of allowing user mounts and unmounts is -(instead of using mount.cifs and unmount.cifs as suid) to add a line -to the file /etc/fstab for each //server/share you wish to mount, but -this can become unwieldy when potential mount targets include many -or unpredictable UNC names. - -Samba Considerations -==================== -To get the maximum benefit from the CIFS VFS, we recommend using a server that -supports the SNIA CIFS Unix Extensions standard (e.g. Samba 2.2.5 or later or -Samba 3.0) but the CIFS vfs works fine with a wide variety of CIFS servers. -Note that uid, gid and file permissions will display default values if you do -not have a server that supports the Unix extensions for CIFS (such as Samba -2.2.5 or later). To enable the Unix CIFS Extensions in the Samba server, add -the line: - - unix extensions = yes - -to your smb.conf file on the server. Note that the following smb.conf settings -are also useful (on the Samba server) when the majority of clients are Unix or -Linux: - - case sensitive = yes - delete readonly = yes - ea support = yes - -Note that server ea support is required for supporting xattrs from the Linux -cifs client, and that EA support is present in later versions of Samba (e.g. -3.0.6 and later (also EA support works in all versions of Windows, at least to -shares on NTFS filesystems). Extended Attribute (xattr) support is an optional -feature of most Linux filesystems which may require enabling via -make menuconfig. Client support for extended attributes (user xattr) can be -disabled on a per-mount basis by specifying "nouser_xattr" on mount. - -The CIFS client can get and set POSIX ACLs (getfacl, setfacl) to Samba servers -version 3.10 and later. Setting POSIX ACLs requires enabling both XATTR and -then POSIX support in the CIFS configuration options when building the cifs -module. POSIX ACL support can be disabled on a per mount basic by specifying -"noacl" on mount. - -Some administrators may want to change Samba's smb.conf "map archive" and -"create mask" parameters from the default. Unless the create mask is changed -newly created files can end up with an unnecessarily restrictive default mode, -which may not be what you want, although if the CIFS Unix extensions are -enabled on the server and client, subsequent setattr calls (e.g. chmod) can -fix the mode. Note that creating special devices (mknod) remotely -may require specifying a mkdev function to Samba if you are not using -Samba 3.0.6 or later. For more information on these see the manual pages -("man smb.conf") on the Samba server system. Note that the cifs vfs, -unlike the smbfs vfs, does not read the smb.conf on the client system -(the few optional settings are passed in on mount via -o parameters instead). -Note that Samba 2.2.7 or later includes a fix that allows the CIFS VFS to delete -open files (required for strict POSIX compliance). Windows Servers already -supported this feature. Samba server does not allow symlinks that refer to files -outside of the share, so in Samba versions prior to 3.0.6, most symlinks to -files with absolute paths (ie beginning with slash) such as: - ln -s /mnt/foo bar -would be forbidden. Samba 3.0.6 server or later includes the ability to create -such symlinks safely by converting unsafe symlinks (ie symlinks to server -files that are outside of the share) to a samba specific format on the server -that is ignored by local server applications and non-cifs clients and that will -not be traversed by the Samba server). This is opaque to the Linux client -application using the cifs vfs. Absolute symlinks will work to Samba 3.0.5 or -later, but only for remote clients using the CIFS Unix extensions, and will -be invisbile to Windows clients and typically will not affect local -applications running on the same server as Samba. - -Use instructions: -================ -Once the CIFS VFS support is built into the kernel or installed as a module -(cifs.o), you can use mount syntax like the following to access Samba or Windows -servers: - - mount -t cifs //9.53.216.11/e$ /mnt -o user=myname,pass=mypassword - -Before -o the option -v may be specified to make the mount.cifs -mount helper display the mount steps more verbosely. -After -o the following commonly used cifs vfs specific options -are supported: - - user=<username> - pass=<password> - domain=<domain name> - -Other cifs mount options are described below. Use of TCP names (in addition to -ip addresses) is available if the mount helper (mount.cifs) is installed. If -you do not trust the server to which are mounted, or if you do not have -cifs signing enabled (and the physical network is insecure), consider use -of the standard mount options "noexec" and "nosuid" to reduce the risk of -running an altered binary on your local system (downloaded from a hostile server -or altered by a hostile router). - -Although mounting using format corresponding to the CIFS URL specification is -not possible in mount.cifs yet, it is possible to use an alternate format -for the server and sharename (which is somewhat similar to NFS style mount -syntax) instead of the more widely used UNC format (i.e. \\server\share): - mount -t cifs tcp_name_of_server:share_name /mnt -o user=myname,pass=mypasswd - -When using the mount helper mount.cifs, passwords may be specified via alternate -mechanisms, instead of specifying it after -o using the normal "pass=" syntax -on the command line: -1) By including it in a credential file. Specify credentials=filename as one -of the mount options. Credential files contain two lines - username=someuser - password=your_password -2) By specifying the password in the PASSWD environment variable (similarly -the user name can be taken from the USER environment variable). -3) By specifying the password in a file by name via PASSWD_FILE -4) By specifying the password in a file by file descriptor via PASSWD_FD - -If no password is provided, mount.cifs will prompt for password entry - -Restrictions -============ -Servers must support either "pure-TCP" (port 445 TCP/IP CIFS connections) or RFC -1001/1002 support for "Netbios-Over-TCP/IP." This is not likely to be a -problem as most servers support this. - -Valid filenames differ between Windows and Linux. Windows typically restricts -filenames which contain certain reserved characters (e.g.the character : -which is used to delimit the beginning of a stream name by Windows), while -Linux allows a slightly wider set of valid characters in filenames. Windows -servers can remap such characters when an explicit mapping is specified in -the Server's registry. Samba starting with version 3.10 will allow such -filenames (ie those which contain valid Linux characters, which normally -would be forbidden for Windows/CIFS semantics) as long as the server is -configured for Unix Extensions (and the client has not disabled -/proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled). - - -CIFS VFS Mount Options -====================== -A partial list of the supported mount options follows: - user The user name to use when trying to establish - the CIFS session. - password The user password. If the mount helper is - installed, the user will be prompted for password - if not supplied. - ip The ip address of the target server - unc The target server Universal Network Name (export) to - mount. - domain Set the SMB/CIFS workgroup name prepended to the - username during CIFS session establishment - forceuid Set the default uid for inodes to the uid - passed in on mount. For mounts to servers - which do support the CIFS Unix extensions, such as a - properly configured Samba server, the server provides - the uid, gid and mode so this parameter should not be - specified unless the server and clients uid and gid - numbering differ. If the server and client are in the - same domain (e.g. running winbind or nss_ldap) and - the server supports the Unix Extensions then the uid - and gid can be retrieved from the server (and uid - and gid would not have to be specifed on the mount. - For servers which do not support the CIFS Unix - extensions, the default uid (and gid) returned on lookup - of existing files will be the uid (gid) of the person - who executed the mount (root, except when mount.cifs - is configured setuid for user mounts) unless the "uid=" - (gid) mount option is specified. Also note that permission - checks (authorization checks) on accesses to a file occur - at the server, but there are cases in which an administrator - may want to restrict at the client as well. For those - servers which do not report a uid/gid owner - (such as Windows), permissions can also be checked at the - client, and a crude form of client side permission checking - can be enabled by specifying file_mode and dir_mode on - the client. (default) - forcegid (similar to above but for the groupid instead of uid) (default) - noforceuid Fill in file owner information (uid) by requesting it from - the server if possible. With this option, the value given in - the uid= option (on mount) will only be used if the server - can not support returning uids on inodes. - noforcegid (similar to above but for the group owner, gid, instead of uid) - uid Set the default uid for inodes, and indicate to the - cifs kernel driver which local user mounted. If the server - supports the unix extensions the default uid is - not used to fill in the owner fields of inodes (files) - unless the "forceuid" parameter is specified. - gid Set the default gid for inodes (similar to above). - file_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server - this overrides the default mode for file inodes. - fsc Enable local disk caching using FS-Cache (off by default). This - option could be useful to improve performance on a slow link, - heavily loaded server and/or network where reading from the - disk is faster than reading from the server (over the network). - This could also impact scalability positively as the - number of calls to the server are reduced. However, local - caching is not suitable for all workloads for e.g. read-once - type workloads. So, you need to consider carefully your - workload/scenario before using this option. Currently, local - disk caching is functional for CIFS files opened as read-only. - dir_mode If CIFS Unix extensions are not supported by the server - this overrides the default mode for directory inodes. - port attempt to contact the server on this tcp port, before - trying the usual ports (port 445, then 139). - iocharset Codepage used to convert local path names to and from - Unicode. Unicode is used by default for network path - names if the server supports it. If iocharset is - not specified then the nls_default specified - during the local client kernel build will be used. - If server does not support Unicode, this parameter is - unused. - rsize default read size (usually 16K). The client currently - can not use rsize larger than CIFSMaxBufSize. CIFSMaxBufSize - defaults to 16K and may be changed (from 8K to the maximum - kmalloc size allowed by your kernel) at module install time - for cifs.ko. Setting CIFSMaxBufSize to a very large value - will cause cifs to use more memory and may reduce performance - in some cases. To use rsize greater than 127K (the original - cifs protocol maximum) also requires that the server support - a new Unix Capability flag (for very large read) which some - newer servers (e.g. Samba 3.0.26 or later) do. rsize can be - set from a minimum of 2048 to a maximum of 130048 (127K or - CIFSMaxBufSize, whichever is smaller) - wsize default write size (default 57344) - maximum wsize currently allowed by CIFS is 57344 (fourteen - 4096 byte pages) - actimeo=n attribute cache timeout in seconds (default 1 second). - After this timeout, the cifs client requests fresh attribute - information from the server. This option allows to tune the - attribute cache timeout to suit the workload needs. Shorter - timeouts mean better the cache coherency, but increased number - of calls to the server. Longer timeouts mean reduced number - of calls to the server at the expense of less stricter cache - coherency checks (i.e. incorrect attribute cache for a short - period of time). - rw mount the network share read-write (note that the - server may still consider the share read-only) - ro mount network share read-only - version used to distinguish different versions of the - mount helper utility (not typically needed) - sep if first mount option (after the -o), overrides - the comma as the separator between the mount - parms. e.g. - -o user=myname,password=mypassword,domain=mydom - could be passed instead with period as the separator by - -o sep=.user=myname.password=mypassword.domain=mydom - this might be useful when comma is contained within username - or password or domain. This option is less important - when the cifs mount helper cifs.mount (version 1.1 or later) - is used. - nosuid Do not allow remote executables with the suid bit - program to be executed. This is only meaningful for mounts - to servers such as Samba which support the CIFS Unix Extensions. - If you do not trust the servers in your network (your mount - targets) it is recommended that you specify this option for - greater security. - exec Permit execution of binaries on the mount. - noexec Do not permit execution of binaries on the mount. - dev Recognize block devices on the remote mount. - nodev Do not recognize devices on the remote mount. - suid Allow remote files on this mountpoint with suid enabled to - be executed (default for mounts when executed as root, - nosuid is default for user mounts). - credentials Although ignored by the cifs kernel component, it is used by - the mount helper, mount.cifs. When mount.cifs is installed it - opens and reads the credential file specified in order - to obtain the userid and password arguments which are passed to - the cifs vfs. - guest Although ignored by the kernel component, the mount.cifs - mount helper will not prompt the user for a password - if guest is specified on the mount options. If no - password is specified a null password will be used. - perm Client does permission checks (vfs_permission check of uid - and gid of the file against the mode and desired operation), - Note that this is in addition to the normal ACL check on the - target machine done by the server software. - Client permission checking is enabled by default. - noperm Client does not do permission checks. This can expose - files on this mount to access by other users on the local - client system. It is typically only needed when the server - supports the CIFS Unix Extensions but the UIDs/GIDs on the - client and server system do not match closely enough to allow - access by the user doing the mount, but it may be useful with - non CIFS Unix Extension mounts for cases in which the default - mode is specified on the mount but is not to be enforced on the - client (e.g. perhaps when MultiUserMount is enabled) - Note that this does not affect the normal ACL check on the - target machine done by the server software (of the server - ACL against the user name provided at mount time). - serverino Use server's inode numbers instead of generating automatically - incrementing inode numbers on the client. Although this will - make it easier to spot hardlinked files (as they will have - the same inode numbers) and inode numbers may be persistent, - note that the server does not guarantee that the inode numbers - are unique if multiple server side mounts are exported under a - single share (since inode numbers on the servers might not - be unique if multiple filesystems are mounted under the same - shared higher level directory). Note that some older - (e.g. pre-Windows 2000) do not support returning UniqueIDs - or the CIFS Unix Extensions equivalent and for those - this mount option will have no effect. Exporting cifs mounts - under nfsd requires this mount option on the cifs mount. - This is now the default if server supports the - required network operation. - noserverino Client generates inode numbers (rather than using the actual one - from the server). These inode numbers will vary after - unmount or reboot which can confuse some applications, - but not all server filesystems support unique inode - numbers. - setuids If the CIFS Unix extensions are negotiated with the server - the client will attempt to set the effective uid and gid of - the local process on newly created files, directories, and - devices (create, mkdir, mknod). If the CIFS Unix Extensions - are not negotiated, for newly created files and directories - instead of using the default uid and gid specified on - the mount, cache the new file's uid and gid locally which means - that the uid for the file can change when the inode is - reloaded (or the user remounts the share). - nosetuids The client will not attempt to set the uid and gid on - on newly created files, directories, and devices (create, - mkdir, mknod) which will result in the server setting the - uid and gid to the default (usually the server uid of the - user who mounted the share). Letting the server (rather than - the client) set the uid and gid is the default. If the CIFS - Unix Extensions are not negotiated then the uid and gid for - new files will appear to be the uid (gid) of the mounter or the - uid (gid) parameter specified on the mount. - netbiosname When mounting to servers via port 139, specifies the RFC1001 - source name to use to represent the client netbios machine - name when doing the RFC1001 netbios session initialize. - direct Do not do inode data caching on files opened on this mount. - This precludes mmapping files on this mount. In some cases - with fast networks and little or no caching benefits on the - client (e.g. when the application is doing large sequential - reads bigger than page size without rereading the same data) - this can provide better performance than the default - behavior which caches reads (readahead) and writes - (writebehind) through the local Linux client pagecache - if oplock (caching token) is granted and held. Note that - direct allows write operations larger than page size - to be sent to the server. - strictcache Use for switching on strict cache mode. In this mode the - client read from the cache all the time it has Oplock Level II, - otherwise - read from the server. All written data are stored - in the cache, but if the client doesn't have Exclusive Oplock, - it writes the data to the server. - rwpidforward Forward pid of a process who opened a file to any read or write - operation on that file. This prevent applications like WINE - from failing on read and write if we use mandatory brlock style. - acl Allow setfacl and getfacl to manage posix ACLs if server - supports them. (default) - noacl Do not allow setfacl and getfacl calls on this mount - user_xattr Allow getting and setting user xattrs (those attributes whose - name begins with "user." or "os2.") as OS/2 EAs (extended - attributes) to the server. This allows support of the - setfattr and getfattr utilities. (default) - nouser_xattr Do not allow getfattr/setfattr to get/set/list xattrs - mapchars Translate six of the seven reserved characters (not backslash) - *?<>|: - to the remap range (above 0xF000), which also - allows the CIFS client to recognize files created with - such characters by Windows's POSIX emulation. This can - also be useful when mounting to most versions of Samba - (which also forbids creating and opening files - whose names contain any of these seven characters). - This has no effect if the server does not support - Unicode on the wire. - nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default). - nocase Request case insensitive path name matching (case - sensitive is the default if the server supports it). - (mount option "ignorecase" is identical to "nocase") - posixpaths If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, attempt to - negotiate posix path name support which allows certain - characters forbidden in typical CIFS filenames, without - requiring remapping. (default) - noposixpaths If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, do not request - posix path name support (this may cause servers to - reject creatingfile with certain reserved characters). - nounix Disable the CIFS Unix Extensions for this mount (tree - connection). This is rarely needed, but it may be useful - in order to turn off multiple settings all at once (ie - posix acls, posix locks, posix paths, symlink support - and retrieving uids/gids/mode from the server) or to - work around a bug in server which implement the Unix - Extensions. - nobrl Do not send byte range lock requests to the server. - This is necessary for certain applications that break - with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most - cifs servers do not yet support requesting advisory - byte range locks). - forcemandatorylock Even if the server supports posix (advisory) byte range - locking, send only mandatory lock requests. For some - (presumably rare) applications, originally coded for - DOS/Windows, which require Windows style mandatory byte range - locking, they may be able to take advantage of this option, - forcing the cifs client to only send mandatory locks - even if the cifs server would support posix advisory locks. - "forcemand" is accepted as a shorter form of this mount - option. - nostrictsync If this mount option is set, when an application does an - fsync call then the cifs client does not send an SMB Flush - to the server (to force the server to write all dirty data - for this file immediately to disk), although cifs still sends - all dirty (cached) file data to the server and waits for the - server to respond to the write. Since SMB Flush can be - very slow, and some servers may be reliable enough (to risk - delaying slightly flushing the data to disk on the server), - turning on this option may be useful to improve performance for - applications that fsync too much, at a small risk of server - crash. If this mount option is not set, by default cifs will - send an SMB flush request (and wait for a response) on every - fsync call. - 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 server - versions 3.0.24 and 3.0.25. - 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 - the file. (EXPERIMENTAL) - servern Specify the server 's netbios name (RFC1001 name) to use - when attempting to setup a session to the server. - This is needed for mounting to some older servers (such - as OS/2 or Windows 98 and Windows ME) since they do not - support a default server name. A server name can be up - to 15 characters long and is usually uppercased. - sfu When the CIFS Unix Extensions are not negotiated, attempt to - create device files and fifos in a format compatible with - Services for Unix (SFU). In addition retrieve bits 10-12 - of the mode via the SETFILEBITS extended attribute (as - SFU does). In the future the bottom 9 bits of the - mode also will be emulated using queries of the security - descriptor (ACL). - mfsymlinks Enable support for Minshall+French symlinks - (see http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/UNIX_Extensions#Minshall.2BFrench_symlinks) - This option is ignored when specified together with the - 'sfu' option. Minshall+French symlinks are used even if - the server supports the CIFS Unix Extensions. - sign Must use packet signing (helps avoid unwanted data modification - by intermediate systems in the route). Note that signing - does not work with lanman or plaintext authentication. - seal Must seal (encrypt) all data on this mounted share before - sending on the network. Requires support for Unix Extensions. - Note that this differs from the sign mount option in that it - causes encryption of data sent over this mounted share but other - shares mounted to the same server are unaffected. - locallease This option is rarely needed. Fcntl F_SETLEASE is - used by some applications such as Samba and NFSv4 server to - check to see whether a file is cacheable. CIFS has no way - to explicitly request a lease, but can check whether a file - is cacheable (oplocked). Unfortunately, even if a file - is not oplocked, it could still be cacheable (ie cifs client - could grant fcntl leases if no other local processes are using - the file) for cases for example such as when the server does not - support oplocks and the user is sure that the only updates to - the file will be from this client. Specifying this mount option - will allow the cifs client to check for leases (only) locally - for files which are not oplocked instead of denying leases - in that case. (EXPERIMENTAL) - sec Security mode. Allowed values are: - none attempt to connection as a null user (no name) - krb5 Use Kerberos version 5 authentication - krb5i Use Kerberos authentication and packet signing - ntlm Use NTLM password hashing (default) - ntlmi Use NTLM password hashing with signing (if - /proc/fs/cifs/PacketSigningEnabled on or if - server requires signing also can be the default) - ntlmv2 Use NTLMv2 password hashing - ntlmv2i Use NTLMv2 password hashing with packet signing - lanman (if configured in kernel config) use older - lanman hash -hard Retry file operations if server is not responding -soft Limit retries to unresponsive servers (usually only - one retry) before returning an error. (default) - -The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o -including: - - -S take password from stdin (equivalent to setting the environment - variable "PASSWD_FD=0" - -V print mount.cifs version - -? display simple usage information - -With most 2.6 kernel versions of modutils, the version of the cifs kernel -module can be displayed via modinfo. - -Misc /proc/fs/cifs Flags and Debug Info -======================================= -Informational pseudo-files: -DebugData Displays information about active CIFS sessions and - shares, features enabled as well as the cifs.ko - version. -Stats Lists summary resource usage information as well as per - share statistics, if CONFIG_CIFS_STATS in enabled - in the kernel configuration. - -Configuration pseudo-files: -PacketSigningEnabled If set to one, cifs packet signing is enabled - and will be used if the server requires - it. If set to two, cifs packet signing is - required even if the server considers packet - signing optional. (default 1) -SecurityFlags Flags which control security negotiation and - also packet signing. Authentication (may/must) - flags (e.g. for NTLM and/or NTLMv2) may be combined with - the signing flags. Specifying two different password - hashing mechanisms (as "must use") on the other hand - does not make much sense. Default flags are - 0x07007 - (NTLM, NTLMv2 and packet signing allowed). The maximum - allowable flags if you want to allow mounts to servers - using weaker password hashes is 0x37037 (lanman, - plaintext, ntlm, ntlmv2, signing allowed). Some - SecurityFlags require the corresponding menuconfig - options to be enabled (lanman and plaintext require - CONFIG_CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH for example). Enabling - plaintext authentication currently requires also - enabling lanman authentication in the security flags - because the cifs module only supports sending - laintext passwords using the older lanman dialect - form of the session setup SMB. (e.g. for authentication - using plain text passwords, set the SecurityFlags - to 0x30030): - - may use packet signing 0x00001 - must use packet signing 0x01001 - may use NTLM (most common password hash) 0x00002 - must use NTLM 0x02002 - may use NTLMv2 0x00004 - must use NTLMv2 0x04004 - may use Kerberos security 0x00008 - must use Kerberos 0x08008 - may use lanman (weak) password hash 0x00010 - must use lanman password hash 0x10010 - may use plaintext passwords 0x00020 - must use plaintext passwords 0x20020 - (reserved for future packet encryption) 0x00040 - -cifsFYI If set to non-zero value, additional debug information - will be logged to the system error log. This field - contains three flags controlling different classes of - debugging entries. The maximum value it can be set - to is 7 which enables all debugging points (default 0). - Some debugging statements are not compiled into the - cifs kernel unless CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2 is enabled in the - kernel configuration. cifsFYI may be set to one or - nore of the following flags (7 sets them all): - - log cifs informational messages 0x01 - log return codes from cifs entry points 0x02 - log slow responses (ie which take longer than 1 second) - CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 must be enabled in .config 0x04 - - -traceSMB If set to one, debug information is logged to the - system error log with the start of smb requests - and responses (default 0) -LookupCacheEnable If set to one, inode information is kept cached - for one second improving performance of lookups - (default 1) -OplockEnabled If set to one, safe distributed caching enabled. - (default 1) -LinuxExtensionsEnabled If set to one then the client will attempt to - use the CIFS "UNIX" extensions which are optional - protocol enhancements that allow CIFS servers - to return accurate UID/GID information as well - as support symbolic links. If you use servers - such as Samba that support the CIFS Unix - extensions but do not want to use symbolic link - support and want to map the uid and gid fields - to values supplied at mount (rather than the - actual values, then set this to zero. (default 1) - -These experimental features and tracing can be enabled by changing flags in -/proc/fs/cifs (after the cifs module has been installed or built into the -kernel, e.g. insmod cifs). To enable a feature set it to 1 e.g. to enable -tracing to the kernel message log type: - - echo 7 > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI - -cifsFYI functions as a bit mask. Setting it to 1 enables additional kernel -logging of various informational messages. 2 enables logging of non-zero -SMB return codes while 4 enables logging of requests that take longer -than one second to complete (except for byte range lock requests). -Setting it to 4 requires defining CONFIG_CIFS_STATS2 manually in the -source code (typically by setting it in the beginning of cifsglob.h), -and setting it to seven enables all three. Finally, tracing -the start of smb requests and responses can be enabled via: - - echo 1 > /proc/fs/cifs/traceSMB - -Per share (per client mount) statistics are available in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats -if the kernel was configured with cifs statistics enabled. The statistics -represent the number of successful (ie non-zero return code from the server) -SMB responses to some of the more common commands (open, delete, mkdir etc.). -Also recorded is the total bytes read and bytes written to the server for -that share. Note that due to client caching effects this can be less than the -number of bytes read and written by the application running on the client. -The statistics for the number of total SMBs and oplock breaks are different in -that they represent all for that share, not just those for which the server -returned success. - -Also note that "cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData" will display information about -the active sessions and the shares that are mounted. - -Enabling Kerberos (extended security) works but requires version 1.2 or later -of the helper program cifs.upcall to be present and to be configured in the -/etc/request-key.conf file. The cifs.upcall helper program is from the Samba -project(http://www.samba.org). NTLM and NTLMv2 and LANMAN support do not -require this helper. Note that NTLMv2 security (which does not require the -cifs.upcall helper program), instead of using Kerberos, is sufficient for -some use cases. - -DFS support allows transparent redirection to shares in an MS-DFS name space. -In addition, DFS support for target shares which are specified as UNC -names which begin with host names (rather than IP addresses) requires -a user space helper (such as cifs.upcall) to be present in order to -translate host names to ip address, and the user space helper must also -be configured in the file /etc/request-key.conf. Samba, Windows servers and -many NAS appliances support DFS as a way of constructing a global name -space to ease network configuration and improve reliability. - -To use cifs Kerberos and DFS support, the Linux keyutils package should be -installed and something like the following lines should be added to the -/etc/request-key.conf file: - -create cifs.spnego * * /usr/local/sbin/cifs.upcall %k -create dns_resolver * * /usr/local/sbin/cifs.upcall %k - -CIFS kernel module parameters -============================= -These module parameters can be specified or modified either during the time of -module loading or during the runtime by using the interface - /proc/module/cifs/parameters/<param> - -i.e. echo "value" > /sys/module/cifs/parameters/<param> - -1. enable_oplocks - Enable or disable oplocks. Oplocks are enabled by default. - [Y/y/1]. To disable use any of [N/n/0]. - diff --git a/fs/cifs/TODO b/fs/cifs/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index 355abcd..0000000 --- a/fs/cifs/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,129 +0,0 @@ -Version 1.53 May 20, 2008 - -A Partial List of Missing Features -================================== - -Contributions are welcome. There are plenty of opportunities -for visible, important contributions to this module. Here -is a partial list of the known problems and missing features: - -a) Support for SecurityDescriptors(Windows/CIFS ACLs) for chmod/chgrp/chown -so that these operations can be supported to Windows servers - -b) Mapping POSIX ACLs (and eventually NFSv4 ACLs) to CIFS -SecurityDescriptors - -c) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping -better) - -d) Cleanup now unneeded SessSetup code in -fs/cifs/connect.c and add back in NTLMSSP code if any servers -need it - -e) fix NTLMv2 signing when two mounts with different users to same -server. - -f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than -using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started) - -g) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls -to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems) - -h) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check -for proper behavior of intr/nointr - -i) improve support for very old servers (OS/2 and Win9x for example) -Including support for changing the time remotely (utimes command). - -j) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the -extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases. - -k) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the -oplock breaks coming from windows srv. Piggyback identical file -opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather -than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid -spurious oplock breaks). - -l) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read -at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion -add support for async_cifs_readpages. - -m) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers -in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize. - -n) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows -will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel -vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file. - -o) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of -the CIFS statistics (started) - -p) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs -(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX - -q) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) - -r) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per -mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping -exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to -allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server -and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol -standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a -particular uid. - -s) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the -server side for Samba 4. - -t) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers) -need to add ability to set time to server (utimes command) - -u) DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too) - -v) mount check for unmatched uids - -w) Add support for new vfs entry point for fallocate - -x) Fix Samba 3 server to handle Linux kernel aio so dbench with lots of -processes can proceed better in parallel (on the server) - -y) Fix Samba 3 to handle reads/writes over 127K (and remove the cifs mount -restriction of wsize max being 127K) - -KNOWN BUGS (updated April 24, 2007) -==================================== -See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for -current bug list. - -1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but -can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that -support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba -overly restrict the pathnames. -2) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions -but recognizes them -3) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can -succeed but still return access denied (appears to be Windows -server not cifs client problem) and has not been reproduced recently. -NTFS partitions do not have this problem. -4) Unix/POSIX capabilities are reset after reconnection, and affect -a few fields in the tree connection but we do do not know which -superblocks to apply these changes to. We should probably walk -the list of superblocks to set these. Also need to check the -flags on the second mount to the same share, and see if we -can do the same trick that NFS does to remount duplicate shares. - -Misc testing to do -================== -1) check out max path names and max path name components against various server -types. Try nested symlinks (8 deep). Return max path name in stat -f information - -2) Modify file portion of ltp so it can run against a mounted network -share and run it against cifs vfs in automated fashion. - -3) Additional performance testing and optimization using iozone and similar - -there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes, -and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than -negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers. - -4) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing -against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers. - |