ACK: [SRU][Bionic][PATCH 1/1] cifs: connect to servername instead of IP for IPC$ share

[Stefan Bader]

On 31.10.18 19:39, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> From: Thomas Werschlein <thomas.werschlein at geo.uzh.ch>
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792580
> 
> This patch is required allows access to a Microsoft fileserver failover
> cluster behind a 1:1 NAT firewall.
> 
> The change also provides stronger context for authentication and share
> connection (see MS-SMB2 3.3.5.7 and MS-SRVS 3.1.6.8) as noted by
> Tom Talpey, and addresses comments about the buffer size for the UNC
> made by Aurélien Aptel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Werschlein <thomas.werschlein at geo.uzh.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench at microsoft.com>
> CC: Tom Talpey <ttalpey at microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel at suse.com>
> CC: Stable <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> (cherry picked from commit 395a2076b4064f97d3fce03af15210ff2a7bb7f9)
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury at canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index e3026e2..3d9ef02 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -2415,7 +2415,7 @@ cifs_setup_ipc(struct cifs_ses *ses, struct smb_vol *volume_info)
>  	if (tcon == NULL)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
> -	snprintf(unc, sizeof(unc), "\\\\%s\\IPC$", ses->serverName);
> +	snprintf(unc, sizeof(unc), "\\\\%s\\IPC$", ses->server->hostname);
>  
>  	/* cannot fail */
>  	nls_codepage = load_nls_default();
> 


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