On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:09:23 -0400 Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > A kernel bug report was opened against Ubuntu [0]. It was found that > reverting the following commit resolved this bug: > > > commit a26054d184763969a411e3939fe243516715ff59 > Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 14 07:21:00 2014 -0500 > > cifs: sanity check length of data to send before sending > > > The regression was introduced as of v3.14-rc7. > > It appears the patch may be doing what it is supposed to, since the > send_length != smb_buf_length: > send_length=72 > and > smb_buf_length=2164260932 > > However, without this check and WARN/return of -EIO the samba > connections still work correctly. > > I was hoping to get your feedback, since you are the patch author. Do > you think gathering any additional data will help diagnose this issue, > or would it be best to submit a revert request? > > Thanks, > > Joe > > [0] http://pad.lv/1372482 > (I'm no longer with Red Hat, so the jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx address won't reach me any longer...) It looks like you probably just need to merge dca1c8d17a2feae056f9e334ea75a462ae4cb52a into your kernel as well. Cheers, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> -- 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
