This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning to the 4.12-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-remove-endian-related-sparse-warning.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 6e3c1529c39e92ed64ca41d53abadabbaa1d5393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 16:56:08 -0500 Subject: CIFS: remove endian related sparse warning From: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6e3c1529c39e92ed64ca41d53abadabbaa1d5393 upstream. Recent patch had an endian warning ie cifs: return ENAMETOOLONG for overlong names in cifs_open()/cifs_lookup() Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> CC: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/dir.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/dir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ check_name(struct dentry *direntry, stru int i; if (unlikely(direntry->d_name.len > - tcon->fsAttrInfo.MaxPathNameComponentLength)) + le32_to_cpu(tcon->fsAttrInfo.MaxPathNameComponentLength))) return -ENAMETOOLONG; if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smfrench@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.12/cifs-fix-maximum-smb2-header-size.patch queue-4.12/cifs-remove-endian-related-sparse-warning.patch