The loop around lookup_one_len doesn't handle the case where it might return a negative dentry, which can cause an oops on the next pass through the loop. Check for that and break out of the loop with an error of -ENOENT if there is one. Fixes the panic reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727927 Reported-by: TR Bentley <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Iain Arnell <iarnell@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c index 212e562..f93eb94 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c @@ -563,6 +563,10 @@ cifs_get_root(struct smb_vol *vol, struct super_block *sb) mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); dput(dentry); dentry = child; + if (!dentry->d_inode) { + dput(dentry); + dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); + } } while (!IS_ERR(dentry)); _FreeXid(xid); kfree(full_path); -- 1.7.6 -- 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