Disable SMB2 for 3.6?

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Fri Jul 8 05:50:28 MDT 2011


Am 08.07.2011 13:19, schrieb Volker Lendecke:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:38:27PM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>>>
>>> Metze - do you have an opinion as to whether your patch produces
>>> the clearest way to get maintainable code ? I'm assuming you
>>> want the become_root() calls inline ?
>>>
>>> Volker - would it help if the function smbd_smb2_request_check_tcon()
>>> was moved out of smbd/smb2_tcon.c and into smbd/smb2_server.c
>>> and the same for smbd_smb2_request_check_session() (move out of
>>> smbd/smb2_sessetup.c into smbd/smb2_server.c) as it would make
>>> the validation functions locally located to the dispatch function
>>> that has to call them to check security ? Right now they are
>>> located in the files that are named after the code that processes
>>> the request, which makes sense from a naming point of view, but
>>> not from a logic point of view - these functions are validation
>>> code, not request processing code. If we moved them both into
>>> smbd/smb2_server.c to just above smbd_smb2_request_dispatch()
>>> they could both be make static to that file.
>>>
>>> Volker, your opinion is most valuable, as you're the one who
>>> found this bug - which is most definitely a show-stopper for
>>> release (the very definition in fact :-).
>>
>> Here is the diff against master that moves the check_ functions
>> into smbd/smb2_server.c. Volker and Metze please comment on your
>> opinions on this.
> 
> Not strictly required, but (IMHO very) nice to have.

Jeremy's patch doesn't apply anymore...

I've also added some more comments to the code.
If you still want to move the code, I can live with that.

metze

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