This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: change noisy error message to FYI to the 5.11-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: cifs-change-noisy-error-message-to-fyi.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 4b74de75d1103a7216183f831f8150cbaaad687c Author: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 8 12:00:48 2021 -0300 cifs: change noisy error message to FYI [ Upstream commit e3d100eae44b42f309c1366efb8397368f1cf8ed ] A customer has reported that their dmesg were being flooded by CIFS: VFS: \\server Cancelling wait for mid xxx cmd: a CIFS: VFS: \\server Cancelling wait for mid yyy cmd: b CIFS: VFS: \\server Cancelling wait for mid zzz cmd: c because some processes that were performing statfs(2) on the share had been interrupted due to their automount setup when certain users logged in and out. Change it to FYI as they should be mostly informative rather than error messages. Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/cifs/transport.c b/fs/cifs/transport.c index 64fccb8809ec..13d685f0ac8e 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/transport.c +++ b/fs/cifs/transport.c @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ compound_send_recv(const unsigned int xid, struct cifs_ses *ses, } if (rc != 0) { for (; i < num_rqst; i++) { - cifs_server_dbg(VFS, "Cancelling wait for mid %llu cmd: %d\n", + cifs_server_dbg(FYI, "Cancelling wait for mid %llu cmd: %d\n", midQ[i]->mid, le16_to_cpu(midQ[i]->command)); send_cancel(server, &rqst[i], midQ[i]); spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock);