Please pull the following changes since commit 84e9a2d5517bf62edda74f382757aa173b8e45fd: Merge tag 'v6.8-rc-part1-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 (2024-01-10 16:23:30 -0800) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git tags/v6.8-rc-part2-smb-client for you to fetch changes up to 78e727e58e54efca4c23863fbd9e16e9d2d83f81: cifs: update iface_last_update on each query-and-update (2024-01-19 10:33:21 -0600) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Various smb client fixes, including multichannel and for SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions - debugging improvement (display start time for stats) - two reparse point handling fixes - various multichannel improvements and fixes - SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions open/create parsing fix - retry (reconnect) improvement including new retrans mount parm, and handling of two additional return codes that need to be retried on - two minor cleanup patches and another to remove duplicate query info code - two documentation cleanup, and one reviewer email correction This P/R does not include the netfs integration patch series for cifs.ko from David Howells (but will start testing that now that the prereq VFS changes are in mainline). It also does not include some additional important patches for improving reconnect/retry handling that are still being tested, and there are two additional important lease key reuse related patches being tested as well, and a patch to handle password expiration and key rotation that are not included in this P/R. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Colin Ian King (1): cifs: remove redundant variable tcon_exist Paulo Alcantara (4): smb: client: fix parsing of SMB3.1.1 POSIX create context smb: client: parse owner/group when creating reparse points smb: client: get rid of smb311_posix_query_path_info() smb: client: don't clobber ->i_rdev from cached reparse points Shyam Prasad N (7): cifs: open_cached_dir should not rely on primary channel cifs: pick channel for tcon and tdis cifs: new nt status codes from MS-SMB2 cifs: reschedule periodic query for server interfaces cifs: new mount option called retrans cifs: handle servers that still advertise multichannel after disabling cifs: update iface_last_update on each query-and-update Steve French (5): smb3: show beginning time for per share stats cifs: minor comment cleanup Update MAINTAINERS email address smb3: minor documentation updates cifs: update known bugs mentioned in kernel docs for cifs Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst | 44 +++--- Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst | 8 +- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- fs/smb/client/cached_dir.c | 2 +- fs/smb/client/cifs_debug.c | 6 +- fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c | 2 + fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h | 4 + fs/smb/client/connect.c | 4 + fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 6 + fs/smb/client/fs_context.h | 2 + fs/smb/client/inode.c | 29 ++-- fs/smb/client/misc.c | 1 + fs/smb/client/readdir.c | 12 +- fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 234 ++++++++++++-------------------- fs/smb/client/smb2maperror.c | 2 + fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 10 +- fs/smb/client/smb2pdu.c | 127 ++++++++++------- fs/smb/client/smb2proto.h | 4 +- fs/smb/client/smb2status.h | 2 + 19 files changed, 244 insertions(+), 257 deletions(-) -- Thanks, Steve