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        "From": "Piyush Sachdeva <s.piyush1024@gmail.com>",
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        "Subject": "[PATCH v2 0/2] smb: client: Spec-compliance fixes for Kerberos key\n derivation",
        "Date": "Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:18:22 +0530",
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        "To": "Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,\n Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>,\n Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>",
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    "content": "This series fixes two MS-SMB2 section 3.2.5.3 spec violations in the\nKerberos session key handling path of fs/smb/client.\n\nPatch 1/2 (resend of v1 with a small cleanup folded in) fixes the\nAES-256 mount failure with sec=krb5: encryption and decryption key\nderivation must use Session.FullSessionKey (the full Kerberos session\nkey, typically 32 bytes for the aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96 enctype)\ninstead of Session.SessionKey (the first 16 bytes).\n\nPatch 2/2 closes the related corner case in the same section of the\nspec: when the GSS protocol returns a session key shorter than 16\nbytes, the buffer must be right-padded with zero bytes. The current\ncode copies the GSS key verbatim, which causes generate_key() to read\npast the end of the allocated buffer and derive keys that do not match\nthe server. The trigger is deprecated short-key Kerberos enctypes\n(e.g. single-DES, 8-byte session key); modern KDCs disable these by\ndefault, so this is a latent issue rather than a reachable one, but it\nis still a kernel slab over-read and a literal spec violation.\n\nVerified against Azure Files (AES-256-GCM + Kerberos aes256-cts) which\npreviously failed to mount with EAGAIN; the dmesg \"Session Key\" trace\nunder CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG_DUMP_KEYS now shows the full 32-byte session\nkey being used for encryption/decryption KDF input.\n\nLink: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/20260409161538.3618-1-s.piyush1024@gmail.com/\n\nChanges since v1:\n  - Patch 1/2: initialize full_key_size at declaration to silence\n    -Wmaybe-uninitialized on some toolchains, and drop the now-\n    redundant else branch (self-review).\n  - Patch 1/2: tighten the FullSessionKey condition to also require\n    Connection.Dialect == \"3.1.1\", matching MS-SMB2 3.2.5.3.1 verbatim.\n  - New patch 2/2: zero-pad short GSS session keys per MS-SMB2 3.2.5.3,\n    eliminating a latent slab over-read in generate_key().\n\nSigned-off-by: Piyush Sachdeva <psachdeva@microsoft.com>\nSigned-off-by: Piyush Sachdeva <s.piyush1024@gmail.com>\nBcc: vaibsharma@microsoft.com\n---\nPiyush Sachdeva (2):\n      smb: client: Use FullSessionKey for AES-256 encryption key derivation\n      smb: client: Zero-pad short GSS session keys per MS-SMB2\n\n fs/smb/client/ioctl.c         |  2 +-\n fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c       | 23 ++++++++++++++++++-----\n fs/smb/client/smb2transport.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------\n 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)\n---\nbase-commit: 0cbc300257d9b399491909806777f504ec687c1d\nchange-id: 20260429-kerbmi-dc0853cd29fc\n\nBest regards,\n--  \nPiyush Sachdeva <s.piyush1024@gmail.com>"
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