default authentication needs to be at least ntlmv2 security for cifs mounts

We had planned to upgrade to ntlmv2 security a few releases ago,
and have been warning users in dmesg on mount about the impending
upgrade, but had to make a change (to use nltmssp with ntlmv2) due
to testing issues with some non-Windows, non-Samba servers.

The approach in this patch is simpler than earlier patches,
and changes the default authentication mechanism to ntlmv2
password hashes (encapsulated in ntlmssp) from ntlm (ntlm is
too weak for current use and ntlmv2 has been broadly
supported for many, many years).

Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index 5c670b998ffb..32fb50e7932b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -2397,8 +2397,6 @@ cifs_set_cifscreds(struct smb_vol *vol __attribute__((unused)),
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_KEYS */
 
-static bool warned_on_ntlm;  /* globals init to false automatically */
-
 static struct cifs_ses *
 cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_vol *volume_info)
 {
@@ -2475,14 +2473,6 @@ cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_vol *volume_info)
 	ses->cred_uid = volume_info->cred_uid;
 	ses->linux_uid = volume_info->linux_uid;
 
-	/* ntlmv2 is much stronger than ntlm security, and has been broadly
-	supported for many years, time to update default security mechanism */
-	if ((volume_info->secFlg == 0) && warned_on_ntlm == false) {
-		warned_on_ntlm = true;
-		cERROR(1, "default security mechanism requested.  The default "
-			"security mechanism will be upgraded from ntlm to "
-			"ntlmv2 in kernel release 3.3");
-	}
 	ses->overrideSecFlg = volume_info->secFlg;
 
 	mutex_lock(&ses->session_mutex);