This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled CIFS: Improve readdir verbosity 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-improve-readdir-verbosity.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. >From dcd87838c06f05ab7650b249ebf0d5b57ae63e1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2017 16:58:58 -0700 Subject: CIFS: Improve readdir verbosity From: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit dcd87838c06f05ab7650b249ebf0d5b57ae63e1e upstream. Downgrade the loglevel for SMB2 to prevent filling the log with messages if e.g. readdir was interrupted. Also make SMB2 and SMB1 codepaths do the same logging during readdir. Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb1ops.c | 9 +++++++-- fs/cifs/smb2ops.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/cifs/smb1ops.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb1ops.c @@ -849,8 +849,13 @@ cifs_query_dir_first(const unsigned int struct cifs_fid *fid, __u16 search_flags, struct cifs_search_info *srch_inf) { - return CIFSFindFirst(xid, tcon, path, cifs_sb, - &fid->netfid, search_flags, srch_inf, true); + int rc; + + rc = CIFSFindFirst(xid, tcon, path, cifs_sb, + &fid->netfid, search_flags, srch_inf, true); + if (rc) + cifs_dbg(FYI, "find first failed=%d\n", rc); + return rc; } static int --- a/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2ops.c @@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ smb2_query_dir_first(const unsigned int rc = SMB2_open(xid, &oparms, utf16_path, &oplock, NULL, NULL); kfree(utf16_path); if (rc) { - cifs_dbg(VFS, "open dir failed\n"); + cifs_dbg(FYI, "open dir failed rc=%d\n", rc); return rc; } @@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ smb2_query_dir_first(const unsigned int rc = SMB2_query_directory(xid, tcon, fid->persistent_fid, fid->volatile_fid, 0, srch_inf); if (rc) { - cifs_dbg(VFS, "query directory failed\n"); + cifs_dbg(FYI, "query directory failed rc=%d\n", rc); SMB2_close(xid, tcon, fid->persistent_fid, fid->volatile_fid); } return rc; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/cifs-improve-readdir-verbosity.patch