Andi, Your patch looks reasonable. Would you repost the patch to linux-cifs mailing list (and add any additional reviewers or testers if you would like if you got feedback)? On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:24:00PM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote: In the cifs_reopen_file function, if the following statement is asserted: (tcon->unix_ext && cap_unix(tcon->ses) && (CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATH_OPS_CAP & (tcon->fsUnixInfo.Capability))) and we succeed to open with cifs_posix_open, the function jumps to the label reopen_success and checks for oparms.reconnect which is not initialized. To avoid this the oparms structure initialization is anticipated before the if statement. Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti fs/cifs/file.c | 18 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c index 1e57f36..fbeaf45 100644 a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -632,6 +632,15 @@ cifs_reopen_file(struct cifsFileInfo *cfile, bool can_flush) else oplock = 0; + oparms.tcon = tcon; + oparms.cifs_sb = cifs_sb; + oparms.desired_access = desired_access; + oparms.create_options = create_options; + oparms.disposition = disposition; + oparms.path = full_path; + oparms.fid = &cfile->fid; + oparms.reconnect = true; + if (tcon->unix_ext && cap_unix(tcon->ses) && (CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATH_OPS_CAP & le64_to_cpu(tcon->fsUnixInfo.Capability))) { @@ -663,15 +672,6 @@ cifs_reopen_file(struct cifsFileInfo *cfile, bool can_flush) if (server->ops->get_lease_key) server->ops->get_lease_key(inode, &cfile->fid); - oparms.tcon = tcon; - oparms.cifs_sb = cifs_sb; - oparms.desired_access = desired_access; - oparms.create_options = create_options; - oparms.disposition = disposition; - oparms.path = full_path; - oparms.fid = &cfile->fid; - oparms.reconnect = true; - /* * Can not refresh inode by passing in file_info buf to be returned by * CIFSSMBOpen and then calling get_inode_info with returned buf sinc -- Thanks, Steve -- 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