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

From: Namjae Jeon
Date: Sun Jan 29 2023 - 23:09:00 EST


2023-01-30 12:15 GMT+09:00, Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 7:57 PM Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> 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...
>
> The "depends on SMB_SERVER" is needed to fix the indentation -
> otherwise it thinks that "config SMB_SERVER_DIRECT" is at the same
> level of indentation as its parent (ksmbd)
> See before and after screenshots attached.
Thanks for explanation:)
Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx>

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> Thanks,
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> Steve
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