I planned to send these seven cifs/smb3 patches (current for-next) upstream for next RC. The cifs-testing (and Windows and Azure) test group passed with them (http://smb3-test-rhel-75.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/#/builders/2/builds/272) d46b0da7a33d (HEAD -> for-next, origin/for-next) cifs: Fix cifsInodeInfo lock_sem deadlock when reconnect occurs 1a67c4159657 CIFS: Fix use after free of file info structures abe57073d08c CIFS: Fix retry mid list corruption on reconnects 783bf7b8b641 cifs: Fix missed free operations 03d9a9fe3f3a CIFS: avoid using MID 0xFFFF 553292a6342b cifs: clarify comment about timestamp granularity for old servers d532cc7efdfd cifs: Handle -EINPROGRESS only when noblockcnt is set Let me know if any objections -- Thanks, Steve