On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:27:56AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Sachin Prabhu wrote: > > On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 10:09 -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > > > We've received reports from users of a cifs mount regression in our > > > 4.4-based kernel, e.g. [1]. It is fixed by reverting the follwing > > > commit > > > from 4.8 which was applied to 4.4 stable: > > > > > > a6b5058 fs/cifs: make share unaccessible at root level mountable > > > > > > Testing against 4.8-rc7 shows that the problem is present there as > > > well. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Seth > > > > > > [1] http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626112 > > > > Hello Seth, > > > > We have identified some regressions introduced by the mentioned patch > > These include > > I saw those, but none of the ones already in Linus's tree fix the > problem. > > > a) mounting of DFS shares breaks. The fix is included in Steve's tree > > at > > https://git.samba.org/?p=sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit;h=de5233745cd59c > > f5853d963ad216067788a87594 > > However this one isn't in Linus's tree yet. > > I'm not certain what circumstances cause the failure, but based on what > I see in dmesg it looks likely that this one is the fix. I'll get some > testing with this applied. Looks like this is is the fix we need. Thanks for your help. Seth -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html