[PATCH] [53/106] cifs: always do is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Apr 26 2011 - 17:14:42 EST


2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 70945643722ffeac779d2529a348f99567fa5c33 upstream.

Currently, we skip doing the is_path_accessible check in cifs_mount if
there is no prefixpath. I have a report of at least one server however
that allows a TREE_CONNECT to a share that has a DFS referral at its
root. The reporter in this case was using a UNC that had no prefixpath,
so the is_path_accessible check was not triggered and the box later hit
a BUG() because we were chasing a DFS referral on the root dentry for
the mount.

This patch fixes this by removing the check for a zero-length
prefixpath. That should make the is_path_accessible check be done in
this situation and should allow the client to chase the DFS referral at
mount time instead.

Reported-and-Tested-by: Yogesh Sharma <ysharma@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/cifs/connect.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/fs/cifs/connect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -2606,7 +2606,7 @@ try_mount_again:

remote_path_check:
/* check if a whole path (including prepath) is not remote */
- if (!rc && cifs_sb->prepathlen && tcon) {
+ if (!rc && tcon) {
/* build_path_to_root works only when we have a valid tcon */
full_path = cifs_build_path_to_root(cifs_sb);
if (full_path == NULL) {
--
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