On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:07:30PM -0800, Pavel Shilovsky wrote:
> Commit 28eb24ff75c5 ("cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting").
>
> In case a hostname resolves to a different IP address (e.g. long
> running mounts), make sure to resolve it every time prior to calling
> generic_ip_connect() in reconnect.
>
> This patch needs user space changes of cifs.upcall that set a timeout
> value for the "dns_resolver" key.
Wait, you are requiring userspace to upgrade tools to support this? And
you think that will happen to all systems running older kernels?
This really feels like a new feature being added, what bug is this
fixing that requires it to be backported to all of the stable kernel
trees?
>
> Suggested-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <palcantara@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
At the very least, I would like the CIFS maintainer to ack this type of
thing before accepting it, as it was not tagged for the stable kernels
for some reason...
thanks,
greg k-h
