When testing SMB filesystem access with XenServer we discovered that if guest access is attempted to a Windows share that requires authentication the connection establishment stage in the kernel went into a non-recoverable (without kill -9 of the mount command) loop attempting to follow a DFS referal. The cause of this is that the error now surfaces later in the process than previously and all errors were considered to be the same and caused a DFS referal step. Mark Syms (1): CIFS: handle guest access errors to Windows shares fs/cifs/connect.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) -- 2.10.2 -- 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
