This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fs/cifs: fix regression in cifs_create_mf_symlink() to the 3.15-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: fs-cifs-fix-regression-in-cifs_create_mf_symlink.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a1d0b84c308d7fdfb67eb76498116a6c2fdda507 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Baumbach?= <bb@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:03:26 +0200 Subject: fs/cifs: fix regression in cifs_create_mf_symlink() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Baumbach?= <bb@xxxxxxxxx> commit a1d0b84c308d7fdfb67eb76498116a6c2fdda507 upstream. commit d81b8a40e2ece0a9ab57b1fe1798e291e75bf8fc ("CIFS: Cleanup cifs open codepath") changed disposition to FILE_OPEN. Signed-off-by: Björn Baumbach <bb@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/link.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/link.c +++ b/fs/cifs/link.c @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ cifs_create_mf_symlink(unsigned int xid, oparms.cifs_sb = cifs_sb; oparms.desired_access = GENERIC_WRITE; oparms.create_options = create_options; - oparms.disposition = FILE_OPEN; + oparms.disposition = FILE_CREATE; oparms.path = path; oparms.fid = &fid; oparms.reconnect = false; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bb@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.15/fs-cifs-fix-regression-in-cifs_create_mf_symlink.patch -- 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