[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 06/11] cifs: eliminate "first_time" parm to CIFS_SessSetup

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:03:20 -0400
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:45:53 -0500
> Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> > > We can use the is_first_ses_reconnect() function to determine this.
> > 
> > This is a slight behavior change - we will end up issuing
> > another SMB negprot after reconnect (which we didn't do before).
> > 
> > May be harmless, but worth thinking through
> > 
> > 
> 
> The comment in cifs_setup_session is misleading. I don't think there's
> a behavior change. cifs_reconnect does this:
> 
>     server->maxBuf = 0;
> 
> ...and that triggers a new negprot on reconnect in the current
> code.

...and I think the current behavior is correct according to the spec.
The MS-CIFS doc says:

"An SMB_COM_NEGOTIATE exchange MUST be completed before any other SMB
messages MAY be sent to the server."

...since the server doesn't have any idea that this is a reconnect, I'd
assume that some (most? all?) servers would reject other SMB's on a
socket that hasn't had a negprot done on it.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>