[PATCH] smb3.1.1: enable negotiating stronger encryption by default

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Wed Apr 28 04:17:38 UTC 2021


Now that stronger encryption (gcm256) has been more broadly
tested, and confirmed to work with multiple servers (Windows
and Azure for example), enable it by default.  Although gcm256 is
the second choice we offer (after gcm128 which should be faster),
this change allows mounts to server which are configured to
require the strongest encryption to work (without changing a module
load parameter).

Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench at microsoft.com>
Suggested-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber at redhat.com>
---
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 4a3867a7cc5b..8a6894577697 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ bool enable_oplocks = true;
 bool linuxExtEnabled = true;
 bool lookupCacheEnabled = true;
 bool disable_legacy_dialects; /* false by default */
-bool enable_gcm_256;  /* false by default, change when more servers
support it */
+bool enable_gcm_256 = true;
 bool require_gcm_256; /* false by default */
 unsigned int global_secflags = CIFSSEC_DEF;
 /* unsigned int ntlmv2_support = 0; */

-- 
Thanks,

Steve



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