Figured it out: it was broken by b946845a9dc523c759cae2b6a0f6827486c3221a commit - "cifs: cifs_parse_mount_options: do not tokenize mount options in-place". So, as a quick fix I suggest to apply this patch. [PATCH] CIFS: Fix kfree() with constant string in a null user case Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 6 +++++- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 20c60dd..ad3de1c 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2887,7 +2887,11 @@ try_mount_again: if (volume_info->nullauth) { cFYI(1, "null user"); - volume_info->username = ""; + volume_info->username = kzalloc(1, GFP_KERNEL); + if (volume_info->username == NULL) { + rc = -ENOMEM; + goto out; + } } else if (volume_info->username) { /* BB fixme parse for domain name here */ cFYI(1, "Username: %s", volume_info->username); -- 1.7.1 -- 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