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-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 bbdda99..7584646 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 */
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