Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753301AbaBYP3m (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:29:42 -0500 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:47034 "EHLO mail-pb0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752935AbaBYP3k (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:29:40 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140225152443.GA15552@sucs.org> References: <20140225152443.GA15552@sucs.org> From: Steve French Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 09:29:20 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Stable backport of cifs nlink workaround? To: Sitsofe Wheeler Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jim McDonough , Jeff Layton , David Disseldorp , Alan Cox Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The patch is a little larger than usual for stable but for those where the backport is trivial, seems reasonable candidate for stable. On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any chance that 74d290da476f672ad756634d12aa707375d3564d > ([CIFS] Provide sane values for nlink) could be backported to the stable > 3.2 kernel? > > The reason I ask is because if you Using a Debain Wheezy box with a > 3.2.41-2+deb7u2 kernel the following is problematic: > > Mount a share using cifs from a Windows 2008 machine on to 2008share > Use Samba 3.6 to export the share as //linux/2008share > Using a Windows 2012 machine browse to \\linux\2008share > > because the directories will appear to be files to the Windows 2012 > machine. > > On the Debian box doing > stat 2008share/dir > says > Device: 18h/24d Inode: 844424932383132 Links: 1 > > Using a Fedora 20 box with a 3.13.3-201.fc20.x86_64 kernel to do the > same says: > Device: 27h/39d Inode: 844424932383132 Links: 2 > > In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52791#c4 Jeff mentions > that if there were demand a RHEL 6 customer could ask for a backport so > it looks like the change is isolated enough to be put into stable... > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9346 also talks about the > issue. > > -- > Sitsofe | http://sucs.org/~sits/ -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/