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[PATCH net-next] net: dns_resolver: allow shorter names in dns_query()

From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
Date: 2026-07-22 21:29:13
Also in: linux-cifs
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

Customer reported a problem with mounting CIFS shares where the server
hostname was 2 chars long.  Turned out that the CIFS client wasn't
able to resolve NetBIOS names shorter than 3 chars.

Fix this by allowing a minimum of one character per hostname in
dns_query().

Reproducer with samba server:

  # 'ab' and 'srv' hotnames resolve to same ip address
  $ ssh srv ln -s 'msdfs:\\ab\\share' /home/shares/dfs/link1
  $ mount.cifs //srv/dfs/link1 /mnt -o ... [EINVAL]

Reported-by: Pierguido Lambri <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org>
---
 net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
index 14bee83cbe22..b8fb9a1245bf 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int dns_query(struct net *net,
 	kenter("%s,%*.*s,%zu,%s",
 	       type, (int)namelen, (int)namelen, name, namelen, options);
 
-	if (!name || namelen < 3 || namelen > 255)
+	if (!name || namelen < 1 || namelen > 255)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (type && *type == '\0')
 		return -EINVAL;


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