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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>,
	Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>,
	Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cifs mount regression in 4.8 and 4.4 stable
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:15:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160922151547.GA3565@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160922150918.GA127053@ubuntu-hedt>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:09:18AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> We've received reports from users of a cifs mount regression in our
> 4.4-based kernel, e.g. [1]. It is fixed by reverting the follwing commit
> from 4.8 which was applied to 4.4 stable:
> 
>  a6b5058 fs/cifs: make share unaccessible at root level mountable
> 
> Testing against 4.8-rc7 shows that the problem is present there as well.
> 
> Thanks,
> Seth
> 
> [1] http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626112

Thanks, I'll wait for the fix to land in Linus's tree before doing
anything in the stable trees.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22 15:09 Seth Forshee
2016-09-22 15:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-09-22 15:17 ` Sachin Prabhu
2016-09-22 15:27   ` Seth Forshee
2016-09-23 12:01     ` Seth Forshee
2016-11-17  9:47       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-17 10:11         ` Sachin Prabhu
2016-11-17 10:31           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2016-11-17 10:17         ` Aurélien Aptel

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