1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
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4 KSMBD - SMB3 Kernel Server
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7 KSMBD is a linux kernel server which implements SMB3 protocol in kernel space
8 for sharing files over network.
13 The subset of performance related operations belong in kernelspace and
14 the other subset which belong to operations which are not really related with
15 performance in userspace. So, DCE/RPC management that has historically resulted
16 into a number of buffer overflow issues and dangerous security bugs and user
17 account management are implemented in user space as ksmbd.mountd.
18 File operations that are related with performance (open/read/write/close etc.)
19 in kernel space (ksmbd). This also allows for easier integration with VFS
20 interface for all file operations.
25 When the server daemon is started, It starts up a forker thread
26 (ksmbd/interface name) at initialization time and open a dedicated port 445
27 for listening to SMB requests. Whenever new clients make a request, the Forker
28 thread will accept the client connection and fork a new thread for a dedicated
29 communication channel between the client and the server. It allows for parallel
30 processing of SMB requests(commands) from clients as well as allowing for new
31 clients to make new connections. Each instance is named ksmbd/1~n(port number)
32 to indicate connected clients. Depending on the SMB request types, each new
33 thread can decide to pass through the commands to the user space (ksmbd.mountd),
34 currently DCE/RPC commands are identified to be handled through the user space.
35 To further utilize the linux kernel, it has been chosen to process the commands
36 as workitems and to be executed in the handlers of the ksmbd-io kworker threads.
37 It allows for multiplexing of the handlers as the kernel takes care of initiating
38 extra worker threads if the load is increased and vice versa, if the load is
39 decreased it destroys the extra worker threads. So, after the connection is
40 established with the client. Dedicated ksmbd/1..n(port number) takes complete
41 ownership of receiving/parsing of SMB commands. Each received command is worked
42 in parallel i.e., there can be multiple client commands which are worked in
43 parallel. After receiving each command a separated kernel workitem is prepared
44 for each command which is further queued to be handled by ksmbd-io kworkers.
45 So, each SMB workitem is queued to the kworkers. This allows the benefit of load
46 sharing to be managed optimally by the default kernel and optimizing client
47 performance by handling client commands in parallel.
49 ksmbd.mountd (user space daemon)
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52 ksmbd.mountd is a userspace process to, transfer the user account and password that
53 are registered using ksmbd.adduser (part of utils for user space). Further it
54 allows sharing information parameters that are parsed from smb.conf to ksmbd in
55 kernel. For the execution part it has a daemon which is continuously running
56 and connected to the kernel interface using netlink socket, it waits for the
57 requests (dcerpc and share/user info). It handles RPC calls (at a minimum few
58 dozen) that are most important for file server from NetShareEnum and
59 NetServerGetInfo. Complete DCE/RPC response is prepared from the user space
60 and passed over to the associated kernel thread for the client.
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69 Dialects Supported. SMB2.1 SMB3.0, SMB3.1.1 dialects
70 (intentionally excludes security vulnerable SMB1
72 Auto Negotiation Supported.
73 Compound Request Supported.
74 Oplock Cache Mechanism Supported.
75 SMB2 leases(v1 lease) Supported.
76 Directory leases(v2 lease) Supported.
77 Multi-credits Supported.
78 NTLM/NTLMv2 Supported.
79 HMAC-SHA256 Signing Supported.
80 Secure negotiate Supported.
81 Signing Update Supported.
82 Pre-authentication integrity Supported.
83 SMB3 encryption(CCM, GCM) Supported. (CCM/GCM128 and CCM/GCM256 supported)
84 SMB direct(RDMA) Supported.
85 SMB3 Multi-channel Partially Supported. Planned to implement
86 replay/retry mechanisms for future.
87 Receive Side Scaling mode Supported.
88 SMB3.1.1 POSIX extension Supported.
89 ACLs Partially Supported. only DACLs available, SACLs
90 (auditing) is planned for the future. For
91 ownership (SIDs) ksmbd generates random subauth
92 values(then store it to disk) and use uid/gid
93 get from inode as RID for local domain SID.
94 The current acl implementation is limited to
95 standalone server, not a domain member.
96 Integration with Samba tools is being worked on
97 to allow future support for running as a domain
100 Durable handle v1,v2 Planned for future.
101 Persistent handle Planned for future.
102 SMB2 notify Planned for future.
103 Sparse file support Supported.
104 DCE/RPC support Partially Supported. a few calls(NetShareEnumAll,
105 NetServerGetInfo, SAMR, LSARPC) that are needed
106 for file server handled via netlink interface
107 from ksmbd.mountd. Additional integration with
108 Samba tools and libraries via upcall is being
109 investigated to allow support for additional
110 DCE/RPC management calls (and future support
111 for Witness protocol e.g.)
112 ksmbd/nfsd interoperability Planned for future. The features that ksmbd
113 support are Leases, Notify, ACLs and Share modes.
114 SMB3.1.1 Compression Planned for future.
115 SMB3.1.1 over QUIC Planned for future.
116 Signing/Encryption over RDMA Planned for future.
117 SMB3.1.1 GMAC signing support Planned for future.
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124 1. Download ksmbd-tools(https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools/releases) and
127 - Refer to README(https://github.com/cifsd-team/ksmbd-tools/blob/master/README.md)
128 to know how to use ksmbd.mountd/adduser/addshare/control utils
131 $ ./configure --with-rundir=/run
132 $ make && sudo make install
134 2. Create /usr/local/etc/ksmbd/ksmbd.conf file, add SMB share in ksmbd.conf file.
136 - Refer to ksmbd.conf.example in ksmbd-utils, See ksmbd.conf manpage
137 for details to configure shares.
141 3. Create user/password for SMB share.
143 - See ksmbd.adduser manpage.
146 $ sudo ksmbd.adduser -a <Enter USERNAME for SMB share access>
148 4. Insert the ksmbd.ko module after you build your kernel. No need to load the module
149 if ksmbd is built into the kernel.
151 - Set ksmbd in menuconfig(e.g. $ make menuconfig)
152 [*] Network File Systems --->
153 <M> SMB3 server support (EXPERIMENTAL)
155 $ sudo modprobe ksmbd.ko
157 5. Start ksmbd user space daemon
161 6. Access share from Windows or Linux using SMB3 client (cifs.ko or smbclient of samba)
166 1. kill user and kernel space daemon
167 # sudo ksmbd.control -s
169 How to turn debug print on
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173 /sys/class/ksmbd-control/debug
175 1. Enable all component prints
176 # sudo ksmbd.control -d "all"
178 2. Enable one of the components (smb, auth, vfs, oplock, ipc, conn, rdma)
179 # sudo ksmbd.control -d "smb"
181 3. Show what prints are enabled.
182 # cat /sys/class/ksmbd-control/debug
183 [smb] auth vfs oplock ipc conn [rdma]
186 If you try the selected component once more, It is disabled without brackets.