Re: [PATCH][KSMBD] fix indentation in ksmbd config and note Kerberos support

From: Namjae Jeon
Date: Sun Jan 29 2023 - 20:57:32 EST


2023-01-30 9:01 GMT+09:00, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>:
Hi Steve,

> Fix indentation of server config options, and also since
> support for very old, less secure, NTLM authentication was removed
> (and quite a while ago), remove the mention of that in Kconfig, but
> do note Kerberos (not just NTLMv2) which are supported and much
> more secure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/ksmbd/Kconfig | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ksmbd/Kconfig b/fs/ksmbd/Kconfig
> index e1fe17747ed6..4153e5491435 100644
> --- a/fs/ksmbd/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/ksmbd/Kconfig
> @@ -33,17 +33,18 @@ config SMB_SERVER
> in ksmbd-tools, available from
> https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools.
> More detail about how to run the ksmbd kernel server is
> - available via README file
> + available via the README file
> (https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools/blob/master/README).
>
> ksmbd kernel server includes support for auto-negotiation,
> Secure negotiate, Pre-authentication integrity, oplock/lease,
> compound requests, multi-credit, packet signing, RDMA(smbdirect),
> smb3 encryption, copy-offload, secure per-user session
> - establishment via NTLM or NTLMv2.
> + establishment via Kerberos or NTLMv2.
>
> config SMB_SERVER_SMBDIRECT
> bool "Support for SMB Direct protocol"
> + depends on SMB_SERVER
I am wondering this change is needed in this patch ? There is no patch
description for this change...

Thanks!
> depends on SMB_SERVER=m && INFINIBAND && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS ||
> SMB_SERVER=y && INFINIBAND=y && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS=y
> select SG_POOL
> default n
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>