This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix confusing unneeded warning message on smb2.1 and earlier to the 5.15-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-fix-confusing-unneeded-warning-message-on-smb2..patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit d448d6efbea220fbff7b81afa09ba55e8dc7ec51 Author: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Feb 16 13:23:53 2022 -0600 cifs: fix confusing unneeded warning message on smb2.1 and earlier [ Upstream commit 53923e0fe2098f90f339510aeaa0e1413ae99a16 ] When mounting with SMB2.1 or earlier, even with nomultichannel, we log the confusing warning message: "CIFS: VFS: multichannel is not supported on this protocol version, use 3.0 or above" Fix this so that we don't log this unless they really are trying to mount with multichannel. BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215608 Reported-by: Kim Scarborough <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.11+ 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/sess.c b/fs/cifs/sess.c index a1e688113645f..5500ea7837845 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/sess.c +++ b/fs/cifs/sess.c @@ -76,11 +76,6 @@ int cifs_try_adding_channels(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, struct cifs_ses *ses) struct cifs_server_iface *ifaces = NULL; size_t iface_count; - if (ses->server->dialect < SMB30_PROT_ID) { - cifs_dbg(VFS, "multichannel is not supported on this protocol version, use 3.0 or above\n"); - return 0; - } - spin_lock(&ses->chan_lock); new_chan_count = old_chan_count = ses->chan_count; @@ -94,6 +89,12 @@ int cifs_try_adding_channels(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, struct cifs_ses *ses) return 0; } + if (ses->server->dialect < SMB30_PROT_ID) { + spin_unlock(&ses->chan_lock); + cifs_dbg(VFS, "multichannel is not supported on this protocol version, use 3.0 or above\n"); + return 0; + } + if (!(ses->server->capabilities & SMB2_GLOBAL_CAP_MULTI_CHANNEL)) { cifs_dbg(VFS, "server %s does not support multichannel\n", ses->server->hostname); ses->chan_max = 1;