Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932337Ab1FVUgZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:36:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:16726 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758077Ab1FVUgX (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:36:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:36:12 -0400 From: Jeff Layton To: Jeff Layton Cc: Helge Hafting , Suresh Jayaraman , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-cifs Subject: Re: [2.6.39] CIFS write failures where 2.6.38 works Message-ID: <20110622163612.45744bc2@tlielax.poochiereds.net> In-Reply-To: <20110609182845.1ebfc678@tlielax.poochiereds.net> References: <4DE6103E.6010100@hist.no> <4DE8B449.2000008@suse.de> <4DE8F989.50208@hist.no> <20110609182845.1ebfc678@tlielax.poochiereds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2704 Lines: 69 On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:28:45 -0400 Jeff Layton wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:11:05 +0200 > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > On 03. juni 2011 12:15, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: > > > [Cc linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org] > > > > > > On 06/01/2011 03:41 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: > > >> At work I use cifs for accessing a windows server. This has worked fine > > >> for a long time, up to and including Debian's 2.6.38-2. > > >> > > >> I just installed Debians's 2.6.39-1, and had to give up on it. > > >> Mounting CIFS works, and I can see the files. But if I > > >> try to make a new file (with cp), I get a long delay. > > > > > > What is the security mechanism you are using? If you seeing the problem > > > with ntlm, could you try using ntlmv2 and see whether the problem is > > > reproducible? > > > > In the beginning, I did not specify the mechanism. So, whatever the > > default is. > > > > The fstab entry was like this: > > \\servername\resource /mountpoint cifs > > domain=MYDOMAIN,credentials=/etc/fstabcred,rw,noauto,iocharset=utf8,uid=username,gid=group,sockopt=TCP_NODELAY,users,file_mode=0640,dir_mode=0750,relatime > > 0 0 > > > > I looked at cifs options, and tried to add "sign" and "sec=ntlmv2i". It > > made no difference. Still failure with 2.6.39, and mounting with these > > new options works fine with 2.6.38 > > > > I think we need to understand what's happening on the wire. Are you > still able to reproduce this? If so, can you turn up debug logging and > reproduce this?. Instructions for how to do that are here: > > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_troubleshooting#Enabling_Debugging > > Also, it looks like someone opened a bug at kernel.org too: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36952 > > ...so if you can attach the resulting log there, that would be great. > I think that this is probably due to the change that added the page_mkwrite function to cifs.ko. Prior to that, cifs did single-page writes on signed connections. Now we do multi-page writes and windows servers apparently reject large write calls on signed connections. One way to test this theory would be to set the wsize to something smaller when you mount. For instance: wsize=16384 ...assuming that doesn't go over the server's MaxBufferSize, then that should act as a workaround. Can you try that and let me know if it helps? Thanks, -- Jeff Layton -- 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/