Fix warning messages when mounting to older servers

When mounting to older servers, such as Windows XP (or even Windows 7),
the limited error messages that can be passed back to user space can
get confusing since the default dialect has changed from SMB1 (CIFS) to
more secure SMB3 dialect. Log additional information when the user chooses
to use the default dialects and when the server does not support the
dialect requested.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 59647eb72c5f..83a8f52cd879 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -1223,6 +1223,7 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
 	char *tmp_end, *value;
 	char delim;
 	bool got_ip = false;
+	bool got_version = false;
 	unsigned short port = 0;
 	struct sockaddr *dstaddr = (struct sockaddr *)&vol->dstaddr;
 
@@ -1874,24 +1875,35 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
 				pr_warn("CIFS: server netbiosname longer than 15 truncated.\n");
 			break;
 		case Opt_ver:
+			/* version of mount userspace tools, not dialect */
 			string = match_strdup(args);
 			if (string == NULL)
 				goto out_nomem;
 
+			/* If interface changes in mount.cifs bump to new ver */
 			if (strncasecmp(string, "1", 1) == 0) {
+				if (strlen(string) > 1) {
+					pr_warn("Bad mount helper ver=%s. Did "
+						"you want SMB1 (CIFS) dialect "
+						"and mean to type vers=1.0 "
+						"instead?\n", string);
+					goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
+				}
 				/* This is the default */
 				break;
 			}
 			/* For all other value, error */
-			pr_warn("CIFS: Invalid version specified\n");
+			pr_warn("CIFS: Invalid mount helper version specified\n");
 			goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
 		case Opt_vers:
+			/* protocol version (dialect) */
 			string = match_strdup(args);
 			if (string == NULL)
 				goto out_nomem;
 
 			if (cifs_parse_smb_version(string, vol) != 0)
 				goto cifs_parse_mount_err;
+			got_version = true;
 			break;
 		case Opt_sec:
 			string = match_strdup(args);
@@ -1973,6 +1985,14 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(const char *mountdata, const char *devname,
 	else if (override_gid == 1)
 		pr_notice("CIFS: ignoring forcegid mount option specified with no gid= option.\n");
 
+	if (got_version == false)
+		pr_warn("No dialect specified on mount. Default has changed to "
+			"a more secure dialect, SMB3 (vers=3.0), from CIFS "
+			"(SMB1). To use the less secure SMB1 dialect to access "
+			"old servers which do not support SMB3 specify vers=1.0"
+			" on mount. For somewhat newer servers such as Windows "
+			"7 try vers=2.1.\n");
+
 	kfree(mountdata_copy);
 	return 0;