This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: revalidate mapping when we open files for SMB1 POSIX to the 4.4-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-revalidate-mapping-when-we-open-files-for-smb1-.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 810c985c77f9048ac666d6befce0f926de7b490a Author: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 25 16:26:35 2021 +1000 cifs: revalidate mapping when we open files for SMB1 POSIX [ Upstream commit cee8f4f6fcabfdf229542926128e9874d19016d5 ] RHBZ: 1933527 Under SMB1 + POSIX, if an inode is reused on a server after we have read and cached a part of a file, when we then open the new file with the re-cycled inode there is a chance that we may serve the old data out of cache to the application. This only happens for SMB1 (deprecated) and when posix are used. The simplest solution to avoid this race is to force a revalidate on smb1-posix open. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c index b5a05092f862..5bc617cb7721 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/file.c +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ int cifs_posix_open(char *full_path, struct inode **pinode, goto posix_open_ret; } } else { + cifs_revalidate_mapping(*pinode); cifs_fattr_to_inode(*pinode, &fattr); }