Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | config CIFS |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | tristate "SMB3 and CIFS support (advanced network filesystem)" |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | depends on INET |
| 4 | select NLS |
Shirish Pargaonkar | d2b9152 | 2010-10-21 14:25:08 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | select CRYPTO |
Jeff Layton | f855f6c | 2011-01-31 08:41:36 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | select CRYPTO_MD4 |
Shirish Pargaonkar | d2b9152 | 2010-10-21 14:25:08 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | select CRYPTO_MD5 |
Benjamin Gilbert | 5b454a6 | 2017-10-19 13:09:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 8 | select CRYPTO_SHA256 |
Stefan Metzmacher | 5890184 | 2018-09-07 18:24:17 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | select CRYPTO_SHA512 |
Benjamin Gilbert | 5b454a6 | 2017-10-19 13:09:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | select CRYPTO_CMAC |
Steve French | 362d312 | 2010-11-14 03:34:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | select CRYPTO_HMAC |
Shirish Pargaonkar | d2b9152 | 2010-10-21 14:25:08 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | select CRYPTO_ARC4 |
Benjamin Gilbert | 5b454a6 | 2017-10-19 13:09:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | select CRYPTO_AEAD2 |
| 14 | select CRYPTO_CCM |
Suresh Jayaraman | 5f0b23e | 2011-06-03 14:19:01 +0530 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | select CRYPTO_ECB |
Benjamin Gilbert | 5b454a6 | 2017-10-19 13:09:29 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | select CRYPTO_AES |
Steve French | 43988d7 | 2011-04-19 18:23:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | select CRYPTO_DES |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | help |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 family of NAS protocols, |
Steve French | 0fdfef9 | 2018-06-28 19:30:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 20 | (including support for the most recent, most secure dialect SMB3.1.1) |
| 21 | as well as for earlier dialects such as SMB2.1, SMB2 and the older |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | Common Internet File System (CIFS) protocol. CIFS was the successor |
| 23 | to the original dialect, the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the |
| 24 | native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. |
| 25 | |
Steve French | 0fdfef9 | 2018-06-28 19:30:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | The SMB3 protocol is supported by most modern operating systems |
| 27 | and NAS appliances (e.g. Samba, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, |
| 28 | MacOS) and even in the cloud (e.g. Microsoft Azure). |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | The older CIFS protocol was included in Windows NT4, 2000 and XP (and |
| 30 | later) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS and SMB3 |
Steve French | 0fdfef9 | 2018-06-28 19:30:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Use of |
| 32 | dialects older than SMB2.1 is often discouraged on public networks. |
| 33 | This module also provides limited support for OS/2 and Windows ME |
| 34 | and similar very old servers. |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 35 | |
Steve French | 0fdfef9 | 2018-06-28 19:30:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 36 | This module provides an advanced network file system client |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 37 | for mounting to SMB3 (and CIFS) compliant servers. It includes |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user |
Steve French | 0fdfef9 | 2018-06-28 19:30:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 39 | session establishment via Kerberos or NTLM or NTLMv2, RDMA |
| 40 | (smbdirect), advanced security features, per-share encryption, |
| 41 | directory leases, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | |
| 44 | In general, the default dialects, SMB3 and later, enable better |
| 45 | performance, security and features, than would be possible with CIFS. |
| 46 | Note that when mounting to Samba, due to the CIFS POSIX extensions, |
| 47 | CIFS mounts can provide slightly better POSIX compatibility |
| 48 | than SMB3 mounts. SMB2/SMB3 mount options are also |
| 49 | slightly simpler (compared to CIFS) due to protocol improvements. |
| 50 | |
Steve French | 0fdfef9 | 2018-06-28 19:30:23 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | If you need to mount to Samba, Azure, Macs or Windows from this machine, say Y. |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | config CIFS_STATS2 |
| 54 | bool "Extended statistics" |
Steve French | fcabb89 | 2018-07-31 01:21:37 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | depends on CIFS |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | help |
| 57 | Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB |
| 58 | request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also |
| 59 | allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the |
| 60 | value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details). |
| 61 | These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance |
| 62 | and memory utilization. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis |
| 65 | or tuning, say N. |
| 66 | |
Steve French | 7420451 | 2018-06-19 14:34:08 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | config CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY |
| 68 | bool "Support legacy servers which use less secure dialects" |
| 69 | depends on CIFS |
| 70 | default y |
| 71 | help |
| 72 | Modern dialects, SMB2.1 and later (including SMB3 and 3.1.1), have |
| 73 | additional security features, including protection against |
| 74 | man-in-the-middle attacks and stronger crypto hashes, so the use |
| 75 | of legacy dialects (SMB1/CIFS and SMB2.0) is discouraged. |
| 76 | |
| 77 | Disabling this option prevents users from using vers=1.0 or vers=2.0 |
| 78 | on mounts with cifs.ko |
| 79 | |
| 80 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 81 | |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 82 | config CIFS_WEAK_PW_HASH |
| 83 | bool "Support legacy servers which use weaker LANMAN security" |
Steve French | 7420451 | 2018-06-19 14:34:08 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | depends on CIFS && CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 85 | help |
| 86 | Modern CIFS servers including Samba and most Windows versions |
| 87 | (since 1997) support stronger NTLM (and even NTLMv2 and Kerberos) |
| 88 | security mechanisms. These hash the password more securely |
| 89 | than the mechanisms used in the older LANMAN version of the |
| 90 | SMB protocol but LANMAN based authentication is needed to |
| 91 | establish sessions with some old SMB servers. |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Enabling this option allows the cifs module to mount to older |
| 94 | LANMAN based servers such as OS/2 and Windows 95, but such |
| 95 | mounts may be less secure than mounts using NTLM or more recent |
| 96 | security mechanisms if you are on a public network. Unless you |
| 97 | have a need to access old SMB servers (and are on a private |
| 98 | network) you probably want to say N. Even if this support |
| 99 | is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be |
| 100 | used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but |
| 101 | can be set to required (or optional) either in |
| 102 | /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an |
| 103 | option on the mount command. This support is disabled by |
| 104 | default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade |
| 105 | attack. |
| 106 | |
| 107 | If unsure, say N. |
| 108 | |
| 109 | config CIFS_UPCALL |
Wang Lei | 1a4240f | 2010-08-04 15:16:33 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 110 | bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup" |
| 111 | depends on CIFS && KEYS |
| 112 | select DNS_RESOLVER |
| 113 | help |
| 114 | Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which accesses userspace helper |
| 115 | utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged (RFC 4178) Kerberos tickets |
| 116 | which are needed to mount to certain secure servers (for which more |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | secure Kerberos authentication is required). If unsure, say Y. |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | |
| 119 | config CIFS_XATTR |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | bool "CIFS extended attributes" |
| 121 | depends on CIFS |
| 122 | help |
| 123 | Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by |
| 124 | the kernel or by users (see the attr(5) manual page for details). |
| 125 | CIFS maps the name of extended attributes beginning with the user |
| 126 | namespace prefix to SMB/CIFS EAs. EAs are stored on Windows |
| 127 | servers without the user namespace prefix, but their names are |
| 128 | seen by Linux cifs clients prefaced by the user namespace prefix. |
| 129 | The system namespace (used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is |
| 130 | not supported at this time. |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 131 | |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | If unsure, say Y. |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 133 | |
| 134 | config CIFS_POSIX |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 135 | bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions" |
| 136 | depends on CIFS && CIFS_ALLOW_INSECURE_LEGACY && CIFS_XATTR |
| 137 | help |
| 138 | Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 139 | negotiate a newer dialect with servers, such as Samba 3.0.5 |
| 140 | or later, that optionally can handle more POSIX like (rather |
| 141 | than Windows like) file behavior. It also enables |
| 142 | support for POSIX ACLs (getfacl and setfacl) to servers |
| 143 | (such as Samba 3.10 and later) which can negotiate |
| 144 | CIFS POSIX ACL support. If unsure, say N. |
| 145 | |
Steve French | 1d4ab90 | 2012-10-01 12:48:03 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 146 | config CIFS_ACL |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | bool "Provide CIFS ACL support" |
| 148 | depends on CIFS_XATTR && KEYS |
| 149 | help |
| 150 | Allows fetching CIFS/NTFS ACL from the server. The DACL blob |
| 151 | is handed over to the application/caller. See the man |
| 152 | page for getcifsacl for more information. If unsure, say Y. |
Steve French | 1d4ab90 | 2012-10-01 12:48:03 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | |
Joe Perches | 471b1f9 | 2012-12-05 12:42:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 154 | config CIFS_DEBUG |
| 155 | bool "Enable CIFS debugging routines" |
| 156 | default y |
| 157 | depends on CIFS |
| 158 | help |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 159 | Enabling this option adds helpful debugging messages to |
| 160 | the cifs code which increases the size of the cifs module. |
| 161 | If unsure, say Y. |
| 162 | |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 163 | config CIFS_DEBUG2 |
| 164 | bool "Enable additional CIFS debugging routines" |
Joe Perches | 471b1f9 | 2012-12-05 12:42:58 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | depends on CIFS_DEBUG |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | help |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | Enabling this option adds a few more debugging routines |
| 168 | to the cifs code which slightly increases the size of |
| 169 | the cifs module and can cause additional logging of debug |
| 170 | messages in some error paths, slowing performance. This |
| 171 | option can be turned off unless you are debugging |
| 172 | cifs problems. If unsure, say N. |
Alexey Dobriyan | bb26b96 | 2008-10-18 20:28:49 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | |
Aurélien Aptel | d38de3c6 | 2017-05-24 16:13:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | config CIFS_DEBUG_DUMP_KEYS |
| 175 | bool "Dump encryption keys for offline decryption (Unsafe)" |
Steve French | 2a38e12 | 2017-07-08 18:48:15 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | depends on CIFS_DEBUG |
Aurélien Aptel | d38de3c6 | 2017-05-24 16:13:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 177 | help |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | Enabling this will dump the encryption and decryption keys |
| 179 | used to communicate on an encrypted share connection on the |
| 180 | console. This allows Wireshark to decrypt and dissect |
| 181 | encrypted network captures. Enable this carefully. |
| 182 | If unsure, say N. |
Aurélien Aptel | d38de3c6 | 2017-05-24 16:13:25 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 183 | |
Steve French | 10e70af | 2009-02-22 01:33:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | config CIFS_DFS_UPCALL |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | bool "DFS feature support" |
| 186 | depends on CIFS && KEYS |
| 187 | select DNS_RESOLVER |
| 188 | help |
| 189 | Distributed File System (DFS) support is used to access shares |
| 190 | transparently in an enterprise name space, even if the share |
| 191 | moves to a different server. This feature also enables |
| 192 | an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts userspace helper |
| 193 | utilities to provide server name resolution (host names to |
| 194 | IP addresses) which is needed in order to reconnect to |
| 195 | servers if their addresses change or for implicit mounts of |
| 196 | DFS junction points. If unsure, say Y. |
Steve French | 10e70af | 2009-02-22 01:33:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | |
Shirish Pargaonkar | 2572087 | 2011-02-25 10:48:55 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | config CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | bool "Allow nfsd to export CIFS file system" |
| 200 | depends on CIFS && BROKEN |
| 201 | help |
| 202 | Allows NFS server to export a CIFS mounted share (nfsd over cifs) |
Steve French | 675f36f | 2011-02-24 17:58:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | |
Long Li | 2b6ed88 | 2017-11-07 01:54:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | config CIFS_SMB_DIRECT |
| 205 | bool "SMB Direct support (Experimental)" |
Arnd Bergmann | 533d1da | 2018-05-25 23:29:59 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | depends on CIFS=m && INFINIBAND && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS || CIFS=y && INFINIBAND=y && INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS=y |
Long Li | 2b6ed88 | 2017-11-07 01:54:54 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 207 | help |
| 208 | Enables SMB Direct experimental support for SMB 3.0, 3.02 and 3.1.1. |
| 209 | SMB Direct allows transferring SMB packets over RDMA. If unsure, |
| 210 | say N. |
| 211 | |
Steve French | 1d4ab90 | 2012-10-01 12:48:03 -0500 | [diff] [blame] | 212 | config CIFS_FSCACHE |
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult | 50cfad7 | 2019-03-06 23:22:59 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 213 | bool "Provide CIFS client caching support" |
| 214 | depends on CIFS=m && FSCACHE || CIFS=y && FSCACHE=y |
| 215 | help |
| 216 | Makes CIFS FS-Cache capable. Say Y here if you want your CIFS data |
| 217 | to be cached locally on disk through the general filesystem cache |
| 218 | manager. If unsure, say N. |