This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Convert trailing spaces and periods in path components to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: convert-trailing-spaces-and-periods-in-path-components.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 57c176074057531b249cf522d90c22313fa74b0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boris Protopopov <pboris@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 00:36:38 +0000 Subject: Convert trailing spaces and periods in path components From: Boris Protopopov <pboris@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 57c176074057531b249cf522d90c22313fa74b0b upstream. When converting trailing spaces and periods in paths, do so for every component of the path, not just the last component. If the conversion is not done for every path component, then subsequent operations in directories with trailing spaces or periods (e.g. create(), mkdir()) will fail with ENOENT. This is because on the server, the directory will have a special symbol in its name, and the client needs to provide the same. Signed-off-by: Boris Protopopov <pboris@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifs_unicode.c @@ -501,7 +501,13 @@ cifsConvertToUTF16(__le16 *target, const else if (map_chars == SFM_MAP_UNI_RSVD) { bool end_of_string; - if (i == srclen - 1) + /** + * Remap spaces and periods found at the end of every + * component of the path. The special cases of '.' and + * '..' do not need to be dealt with explicitly because + * they are addressed in namei.c:link_path_walk(). + **/ + if ((i == srclen - 1) || (source[i+1] == '\\')) end_of_string = true; else end_of_string = false; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pboris@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/convert-trailing-spaces-and-periods-in-path-components.patch