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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-01-31 11:24:00 -0600
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2007-01-31 11:24:00 -0600
commit30716e07ef511ec7525c07eb1e8060ba8943c2a2 (patch)
treeeb6a47cae63d3587fa773cc5a16781eaa2c7810b /fs/cifs/sess.c
parent03c79cc56e4497cbd09d74a73c1bd0d1d9a8a16c (diff)
parentf56df2f4db6e4af87fb8e941cff69f4501a111df (diff)
Merge branch 'linus'
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/sess.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/sess.c13
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/sess.c b/fs/cifs/sess.c
index bbdda99dce61..758464630893 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/sess.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/sess.c
@@ -182,11 +182,14 @@ static int decode_unicode_ssetup(char ** pbcc_area, int bleft, struct cifsSesInf
cFYI(1,("bleft %d",bleft));
- /* word align, if bytes remaining is not even */
- if(bleft % 2) {
- bleft--;
- data++;
- }
+ /* SMB header is unaligned, so cifs servers word align start of
+ Unicode strings */
+ data++;
+ bleft--; /* Windows servers do not always double null terminate
+ their final Unicode string - in which case we
+ now will not attempt to decode the byte of junk
+ which follows it */
+
words_left = bleft / 2;
/* save off server operating system */