4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit fd09b7d3b352105f08b8e02f7afecf7e816380ef upstream. An earlier commit had a typo which prevented the optimization from working: commit 18dd8e1a65dd ("Do not send SMB3 SET_INFO request if nothing is changing") Thank you to Metze for noticing this. Also clear a reserved field in the FILE_BASIC_INFO struct we send that should be zero (all the other fields in that struct were set or cleared explicitly already in cifs_set_file_info). Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CC: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.9.x+ Reported-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/inode.c | 2 ++ fs/cifs/smb2inode.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c @@ -1063,6 +1063,8 @@ cifs_set_file_info(struct inode *inode, if (!server->ops->set_file_info) return -ENOSYS; + info_buf.Pad = 0; + if (attrs->ia_valid & ATTR_ATIME) { set_time = true; info_buf.LastAccessTime = --- a/fs/cifs/smb2inode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2inode.c @@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ smb2_set_file_info(struct inode *inode, int rc; if ((buf->CreationTime == 0) && (buf->LastAccessTime == 0) && - (buf->LastWriteTime == 0) && (buf->ChangeTime) && + (buf->LastWriteTime == 0) && (buf->ChangeTime == 0) && (buf->Attributes == 0)) return 0; /* would be a no op, no sense sending this */