This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: fix confusing debug message 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: cifs-fix-confusing-debug-message.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 a85ceafd41927e41a4103d228a993df7edd8823b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxx> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 22:03:41 -0300 Subject: cifs: fix confusing debug message From: Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxx> commit a85ceafd41927e41a4103d228a993df7edd8823b upstream. Since rc was initialised to -ENOMEM in cifs_get_smb_ses(), when an existing smb session was found, free_xid() would be called and then print CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Existing tcp session with server found CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: in cifs_get_smb_ses as Xid: 44 with uid: 0 CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Existing smb sess found (status=1) CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: leaving cifs_get_smb_ses (xid = 44) rc = -12 Fix this by initialising rc to 0 and then let free_xid() print this instead CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Existing tcp session with server found CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: in cifs_get_smb_ses as Xid: 14 with uid: 0 CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: Existing smb sess found (status=1) CIFS: fs/cifs/connect.c: VFS: leaving cifs_get_smb_ses (xid = 14) rc = 0 Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -2693,7 +2693,7 @@ cifs_set_cifscreds(struct smb_vol *vol _ static struct cifs_ses * cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct smb_vol *volume_info) { - int rc = -ENOMEM; + int rc = 0; unsigned int xid; struct cifs_ses *ses; struct sockaddr_in *addr = (struct sockaddr_in *)&server->dstaddr; @@ -2735,6 +2735,8 @@ cifs_get_smb_ses(struct TCP_Server_Info return ses; } + rc = -ENOMEM; + cifs_dbg(FYI, "Existing smb sess not found\n"); ses = sesInfoAlloc(); if (ses == NULL) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pc@xxxxxx are queue-4.14/cifs-fix-confusing-debug-message.patch