Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tom Talpey <> | Subject | RE: [[PATCH v1] 16/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD message with no payload | Date | Mon, 14 Aug 2017 19:00:06 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-cifs-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-cifs- > owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Long Li > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 2:20 PM > To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> > Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>; linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org; samba- > technical@lists.samba.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: RE: [[PATCH v1] 16/37] [CIFS] SMBD: Post a SMBD message with no > payload > > > > Implement the function to send a SMBD message with no payload. This is > > required at times when we want to extend credtis to server to have it > > continue to send data, without sending any actual data payload. > > > > Shouldn't this just be implemented as a special case in the version that posts > > data? > > It uses a different packet format "struct smbd_data_transfer_no_data". I can > restructure some common code to share between packet sending functions.
The SMB Direct keepalive is just a Data Transfer Message with no payload (MS-SMBD section 2.2.3) and the SMB_DIRECT_RESPONSE_REQUESTED flag possibly set. I don't see any need to define a special structure to describe this?
Tom.
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