This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: escape spaces in share names 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-escape-spaces-in-share-names.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. >From 0fc9322ab5e1fe6910c9673e1a7ff29f7dd72611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 17:02:29 +0200 Subject: cifs: escape spaces in share names From: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@xxxxxxxxx> commit 0fc9322ab5e1fe6910c9673e1a7ff29f7dd72611 upstream. Commit 653a5efb849a ("cifs: update super_operations to show_devname") introduced the display of devname for cifs mounts. However, when mounting a share which has a whitespace in the name, that exact share name is also displayed in mountinfo. Make sure that all whitespace is escaped. Signed-off-by: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@xxxxxxxxx> CC: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 5.11+ Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c @@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ static int cifs_show_devname(struct seq_ seq_puts(m, "none"); else { convert_delimiter(devname, '/'); - seq_puts(m, devname); + /* escape all spaces in share names */ + seq_escape(m, devname, " \t"); kfree(devname); } return 0; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from maciek.borzecki@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.11/cifs-escape-spaces-in-share-names.patch