linux-kernel - Re: cifs mount regression in 4.8 and 4.4 stable

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Date:   Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:15:47 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
Cc:     Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>,
        Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@...hat.com>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cifs mount regression in 4.8 and 4.4 stable

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