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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/sess.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/sess.c b/fs/cifs/sess.c index bbdda99dce6..75846463089 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 */ |