cifs_get_tcon() could return any of the following errors: -ENOMEM/-ENODEV/EREMOTEIO. We should follow the DFS referral code path only when we get -EREMOTEIO (STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED) from the server and not otherwise. Compile-tested only. Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 5 ++++- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 251a17c..c3a2323 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2780,7 +2780,10 @@ try_mount_again: if (IS_ERR(tcon)) { rc = PTR_ERR(tcon); tcon = NULL; - goto remote_path_check; + if (rc == -EREMOTEIO) + goto remote_path_check; + else + goto mount_fail_check; } /* do not care if following two calls succeed - informational */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html