Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 May 2012 11:19:26 +0530 | From | Suresh Jayaraman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cifs - check S_AUTOMOUNT in revalidate |
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On 05/02/2012 11:20 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 17:15:29 +0530 > Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.com> wrote: > >> On 04/28/2012 09:03 AM, Steve French wrote: >>> The fix makes sense, but it is fairly recent and I haven't had a >>> chance to try it, >>> so unless a new release is imminent, I would prefer to put in the next merge >>> request (I have at least one more fix likely as well) next week. >> >> We need this fix for -stable as well, right? Please include >> >> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org > > The stable-kernel-rules.txt file says this: > > - It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a > problem..." type thing). >
Doh, looks like I had assumed (wrongly) that this fixes the problem reported here
http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs&m=133460168320472&w=2
(mapping to a dfsroot and cd to a reflink returning "Object is remote" or "Not a directory" error). I didn't have a setup to verify it too.
I notice that Steve has already merged this patch adding Cc to stable and the Cc has to be removed before sending the pull request.
Suresh
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