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Message-ID: <YGxlJXv/+IPaErUr@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 15:41:57 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>,
Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>,
Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>,
Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 013/247] cifs: Set CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag
on setting cifs_sb->prepath.
On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 01:38:24PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:10:33PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit a738c93fb1c17e386a09304b517b1c6b2a6a5a8b ]
> >
> > While debugging another issue today, Steve and I noticed that if a
> > subdir for a file share is already mounted on the client, any new
> > mount of any other subdir (or the file share root) of the same share
> > results in sharing the cifs superblock, which e.g. can result in
> > incorrect device name.
> >
> > While setting prefix path for the root of a cifs_sb,
> > CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag should also be set.
> > Without it, prepath is not even considered in some places,
> > and output of "mount" and various /proc/<>/*mount* related
> > options can be missing part of the device name.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@...e.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
> > ---
> > fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > index 6285085195c15..632249ce61eba 100644
> > --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> > @@ -3882,6 +3882,7 @@ int cifs_setup_cifs_sb(struct smb_vol *pvolume_info,
> > cifs_sb->prepath = kstrdup(pvolume_info->prepath, GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (cifs_sb->prepath == NULL)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > + cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags |= CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH;
> > }
> >
> > return 0;
>
> A user in Debian reported an issue with mounts of DFS shares after an
> update in Debian from 4.19.177 to 4.181:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00062.html
>
> In a test setup i was able to reproduce the issue with 4.19.184 itself
> (but interestingly not withing the 5.10.y series, checked 5.10.26)
> which both contain the above commit.
>
> 4.19.184 with a738c93fb1c1 ("cifs: Set CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag
> on setting cifs_sb->prepath.") reverted fixes the issue.
>
> Is there probably some missing prerequisites missing in the 4.19.y
> brach? I could not test othr versions, but maybe other versions are
> affected as well as before 4.19.y, as the commit was backported to
> 4.14.223 as well.
If there is a missing patch, we will be glad to take it, does 5.4 also
have this problem?
thanks,
greg k-h
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