[CIFS] Make sec=none force an anonymous mount

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We had a customer report that attempting to make CIFS mount with a null
username (i.e. doing an anonymous mount) doesn't work. Looking through the
code, it looks like CIFS expects a NULL username from userspace in order
to trigger an anonymous mount. The mount.cifs code doesn't seem to ever
pass a null username to the kernel, however.

It looks also like the kernel can take a sec=none option, but it only seems
to look at it if the username is already NULL. This seems redundant and
effectively makes sec=none useless.

The following patch makes sec=none force an anonymous mount.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

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Jeff Layton 2007-05-05 03:27:49 +00:00 • committed by Steve French

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