summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/fs/cifs
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2009-03-18[CIFS] Fix memory overwrite when saving nativeFileSystem field during mountSteve French
CIFS can allocate a few bytes to little for the nativeFileSystem field during tree connect response processing during mount. This can result in a "Redzone overwritten" message to be logged. Signed-off-by: Sridhar Vinay <vinaysridhar@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com> CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-18[CIFS] Rename compose_mount_options to cifs_compose_mount_options.Steve French
Make it available to others for reuse. Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] work around bug in Samba server handling for posix openSteve French
Samba server (version 3.3.1 and earlier, and 3.2.8 and earlier) incorrectly required the O_CREAT flag on posix open (even when a file was not being created). This disables posix open (create is still ok) after the first attempt returns EINVAL (and logs an error, once, recommending that they update their server). Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] Use posix open on file open when server supports itSteve French
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12cifs: fix buffer format byte on NT Rename/hardlinkJeff Layton
Discovered at Connnectathon 2009... The buffer format byte and the pad are transposed in NT_RENAME calls (which are used to set hardlinks). Most servers seem to ignore this fact, but NetApp filers throw back an error due to this problem. This patch fixes it. CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] Add definitions for remoteably fsctl callsSteve French
There are about 60 fsctl calls which Windows claims would be able to be sent remotely and handled by the server. This adds the #defines for them. A few of them look immediately useful, but need to also add the structure definitions for them so they can be sent as SMBs. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] add extra null attr checkSteve French
Although attr == NULL can not happen, this makes cifs_set_file_info safer in the future since it may not be obvious that the caller can not set attr to NULL. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] fix build errorSteve French
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] reopen file via newer posix open protocol operation if availableSteve French
If the network connection crashes, and we have to reopen files, preferentially use the newer cifs posix open protocol operation if the server supports it. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] Add new nostrictsync cifs mount option to avoid slow SMB flushSteve French
If this mount option is set, when an application does an fsync call then the cifs client does not send an SMB Flush to the server (to force the server to write all dirty data for this file immediately to disk), although cifs still sends all dirty (cached) file data to the server and waits for the server to respond to the write write. Since SMB Flush can be very slow, and some servers may be reliable enough (to risk delaying slightly flushing the data to disk on the server), turning on this option may be useful to improve performance for applications that fsync too much, at a small risk of server crash. If this mount option is not set, by default cifs will send an SMB flush request (and wait for a response) on every fsync call. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] DFS no longer experimentalSteve French
Also updates some DFS flag definitions Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-03-12[CIFS] Send SMB flush in cifs_fsyncSteve French
In contrast to the now-obsolete smbfs, cifs does not send SMB_COM_FLUSH in response to an explicit fsync(2) to guarantee that all volatile data is written to stable storage on the server side, provided the server honors the request (which, to my knowledge, is true for Windows and Samba with 'strict sync' enabled). This patch modifies the cifs_fsync implementation to restore the fsync-behavior of smbfs by triggering SMB_COM_FLUSH after sending outstanding data on the client side to the server. Signed-off-by: Horst Reiterer <horst.reiterer@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21[CIFS] Fix multiuser mounts so server does not invalidate earlier security ↵Steve French
contexts When two different users mount the same Windows 2003 Server share using CIFS, the first session mounted can be invalidated. Some servers invalidate the first smb session when a second similar user (e.g. two users who get mapped by server to "guest") authenticates an smb session from the same client. By making sure that we set the 2nd and subsequent vc numbers to nonzero values, this ensures that we will not have this problem. Fixes Samba bug 6004, problem description follows: How to reproduce: - configure an "open share" (full permissions to Guest user) on Windows 2003 Server (I couldn't reproduce the problem with Samba server or Windows older than 2003) - mount the share twice with different users who will be authenticated as guest. noacl,noperm,user=john,dir_mode=0700,domain=DOMAIN,rw noacl,noperm,user=jeff,dir_mode=0700,domain=DOMAIN,rw Result: - just the mount point mounted last is accessible: Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21[CIFS] improve posix semantics of file createSteve French
Samba server added support for a new posix open/create/mkdir operation a year or so ago, and we added support to cifs for mkdir to use it, but had not added the corresponding code to file create. The following patch helps improve the performance of the cifs create path (to Samba and servers which support the cifs posix protocol extensions). Using Connectathon basic test1, with 2000 files, the performance improved about 15%, and also helped reduce network traffic (17% fewer SMBs sent over the wire) due to saving a network round trip for the SetPathInfo on every file create. It should also help the semantics (and probably the performance) of write (e.g. when posix byte range locks are on the file) on file handles opened with posix create, and adds support for a few flags which would have to be ignored otherwise. Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21[CIFS] Fix oops in cifs_strfromUCS_le mounting to servers which do not ↵Steve French
specify their OS Fixes kernel bug #10451 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10451 Certain NAS appliances do not set the operating system or network operating system fields in the session setup response on the wire. cifs was oopsing on the unexpected zero length response fields (when trying to null terminate a zero length field). This fixes the oops. Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> CC: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21cifs: posix fill in inode needed by posix openJeff Layton
function needed to prepare for posix open Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21cifs: properly handle case where CIFSGetSrvInodeNumber failsJeff Layton
...if it does then we pass a pointer to an unintialized variable for the inode number to cifs_new_inode. Have it pass a NULL pointer instead. Also tweak the function prototypes to reduce the amount of casting. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21cifs: refactor new_inode() calls and inode initializationJeff Layton
Move new inode creation into a separate routine and refactor the callers to take advantage of it. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-02-21[CIFS] Prevent OOPs when mounting with remote prefixpath.Igor Mammedov
Fixes OOPs with message 'kernel BUG at fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c:274!'. Checks if the prefixpath in an accesible while we are still in cifs_mount and fails with reporting a error if we can't access the prefixpath Should fix Samba bugs 6086 and 5861 and kernel bug 12192 Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <niallain@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-30[CIFS] ipv6_addr_equal for address comparisonSteve French
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-29cifs: make sure we allocate enough storage for socket addressJeff Layton
The sockaddr declared on the stack in cifs_get_tcp_session is too small for IPv6 addresses. Change it from "struct sockaddr" to "struct sockaddr_storage" to prevent stack corruption when IPv6 is used. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-29[CIFS] Make socket retry timeouts consistent between blocking and ↵Steve French
nonblocking cases We have used approximately 15 second timeouts on nonblocking sends in the past, and also 15 second SMB timeout (waiting for server responses, for most request types). Now that we can do blocking tcp sends, make blocking send timeout approximately the same (15 seconds). Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-29[CIFS] some cleanup to dir.c prior to addition of posix_openSteve French
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-29[CIFS] revalidate parent inode when rmdir done within that directorySteve French
When a search is pending of a parent directory, and a child directory within it is removed, we need to reset the parent directory's time so that we don't reuse the (now stale) search results. Thanks to Gunter Kukkukk for reporting this: > got the following failure notification on irc #samba: > > A user was updating from subversion 1.4 to 1.5, where the > repository is located on a samba share (independent of > unix extensions = Yes or No). > svn 1.4 did work, 1.5 does not. > > The user did a lot of stracing of subversion - and wrote a > testapplet to simulate the failing behaviour. > I've converted the C++ source to C and added some error cases. > > When using "./testdir" on a local file system, "result2" > is always (nil) as expected - cifs vfs behaves different here! > > ./testdir /mnt/cifs/mounted/share > > returns a (failing) valid pointer. Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-29[CIFS] Rename md5 functions to avoid collision with new rt modulesSteve French
When rt modules were added they (each) included their own md5 with names which collided with the existing names of cifs's md5 functions. Renaming cifs's md5 modules so we don't collide with them. > Stephen Rothwell wrote: > When CIFS is built-in (=y) and staging/rt28[67]0 =y, there are multiple > definitions of: > > build-r8250.out:(.text+0x1d8ad0): multiple definition of `MD5Init' > build-r8250.out:(.text+0x1dbb30): multiple definition of `MD5Update' > build-r8250.out:(.text+0x1db9b0): multiple definition of `MD5Final' > > all of which need to have more unique identifiers for their global > symbols (e.g., rt28_md5_init, cifs_md5_init, foo, blah, bar). > CC: Greg K-H <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-29cifs: turn smb_send into a wrapper around smb_sendvJeff Layton
cifs: turn smb_send into a wrapper around smb_sendv Rename smb_send2 to smb_sendv to make it consistent with kernel naming conventions for functions that take a vector. There's no need to have 2 functions to handle sending SMB calls. Turn smb_send into a wrapper around smb_sendv. This also allows us to properly mark the socket as needing to be reconnected when there's a partial send from smb_send. Also, in practice we always use the address and noblocksnd flag that's attached to the TCP_Server_Info. There's no need to pass them in as separate args to smb_sendv. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2009-01-05Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: inotify: fix type errors in interfaces fix breakage in reiserfs_new_inode() fix the treatment of jfs special inodes vfs: remove duplicate code in get_fs_type() add a vfs_fsync helper sys_execve and sys_uselib do not call into fsnotify zero i_uid/i_gid on inode allocation inode->i_op is never NULL ntfs: don't NULL i_op isofs check for NULL ->i_op in root directory is dead code affs: do not zero ->i_op kill suid bit only for regular files vfs: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) race condition
2009-01-05inode->i_op is never NULLAl Viro
We used to have rather schizophrenic set of checks for NULL ->i_op even though it had been eliminated years ago. You'd need to go out of your way to set it to NULL explicitly _and_ a bunch of code would die on such inodes anyway. After killing two remaining places that still did that bogosity, all that crap can go away. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-04fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fixNick Piggin
With the write_begin/write_end aops, page_symlink was broken because it could no longer pass a GFP_NOFS type mask into the point where the allocations happened. They are done in write_begin, which would always assume that the filesystem can be entered from reclaim. This bug could cause filesystem deadlocks. The funny thing with having a gfp_t mask there is that it doesn't really allow the caller to arbitrarily tinker with the context in which it can be called. It couldn't ever be GFP_ATOMIC, for example, because it needs to take the page lock. The only thing any callers care about is __GFP_FS anyway, so turn that into a single flag. Add a new flag for write_begin, AOP_FLAG_NOFS. Filesystems can now act on this flag in their write_begin function. Change __grab_cache_page to accept a nofs argument as well, to honour that flag (while we're there, change the name to grab_cache_page_write_begin which is more instructive and does away with random leading underscores). This is really a more flexible way to go in the end anyway -- if a filesystem happens to want any extra allocations aside from the pagecache ones in ints write_begin function, it may now use GFP_KERNEL (rather than GFP_NOFS) for common case allocations (eg. ocfs2_alloc_write_ctxt, for a random example). [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix ubifs] [kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com: fix fuse] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.28.x] Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [ Cleaned up the calling convention: just pass in the AOP flags untouched to the grab_cache_page_write_begin() function. That just simplifies everybody, and may even allow future expansion of the logic. - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-31kill ->dir_notify()Al Viro
Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify(). The only instance (cifs) has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er, deficiencies someday be dealt with. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-28cifs: update for new IP4/6 address printingStephen Rothwell
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits) net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular. igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled. net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes. gro: Fix potential use after free sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues 802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header 802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer 802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer 802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system 802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool 802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool 802.3ad: make ntt bool ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools. ... Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
2008-12-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (31 commits) [CIFS] Remove redundant test [CIFS] make sure that DFS pathnames are properly formed Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition [CIFS] Streamline SendReceive[2] by using "goto out:" in an error condition Slightly streamline SendReceive[2] Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2] [CIFS] Cleanup: Move the check for too large R/W requests [CIFS] Slightly simplify wait_for_free_request(), remove an unnecessary "else" branch Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches [CIFS] In SendReceive, move consistency check out of the mutexed region cifs: store password in tcon cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args cifs: zero out session password before freeing it cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly [CIFS] Can not mount with prefixpath if root directory of share is inaccessible [CIFS] various minor cleanups pointed out by checkpatch script [CIFS] fix typo [CIFS] remove sparse warning ... Fix trivial conflict in fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h due to comment changes for the CIFS_MOUNT_xyz bit definitions between cifs updates and security updates.
2008-12-26[CIFS] Remove redundant testJulia Lawall
In fs/cifs/cifssmb.c, pLockData is tested for being NULL at the beginning of the function, and not reassigned subsequently. A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26[CIFS] make sure that DFS pathnames are properly formedSteve French
The paths in a DFS request are supposed to only have a single preceding backslash, but we are sending them with a double backslash. This is exposing a bug in Windows where it also sends a path in the response that has a double backslash. The existing code that builds the mount option string however expects a double backslash prefix in a couple of places when it tries to use the path returned by build_path_from_dentry. Fix compose_mount_options to expect properly formed DFS paths (single backslash at front). Also clean up error handling in that function. There was a possible NULL pointer dereference and situations where a partially built option string would be returned. Tested against Samba 3.0.28-ish server and Samba 3.3 and Win2k8. CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLockVolker Lendecke
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error conditionVolker Lendecke
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error conditionVolker Lendecke
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26[CIFS] Streamline SendReceive[2] by using "goto out:" in an error conditionSteve French
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]Volker Lendecke
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2] Remove an else branch by naming the error condition what it is Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2]Volker Lendecke
Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2] Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26[CIFS] Cleanup: Move the check for too large R/W requestsSteve French
This avoids an unnecessary else branch Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26[CIFS] Slightly simplify wait_for_free_request(), remove an unnecessary ↵Volker Lendecke
"else" branch This is no functional change, because in the "if" branch we do an early "return 0;". Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branchesVolker Lendecke
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26[CIFS] In SendReceive, move consistency check out of the mutexed regionVolker Lendecke
inbuf->smb_buf_length does not change in in wait_for_free_request() or in allocate_mid(), so we can check it early. Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26cifs: store password in tconJeff Layton
cifs: store password in tcon Each tcon has its own password for share-level security. Store it in the tcon and wipe it clean and free it when freeing the tcon. When doing the tree connect with share-level security, use the tcon password instead of the session password. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular argsJeff Layton
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args We need to use this routine to encrypt passwords associated with the tcon too. Don't assume that the password will be attached to the smb_session. Also, make some of the values in the lower encryption functions const since they aren't changed. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26cifs: zero out session password before freeing itJeff Layton
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it ...just to be on the safe side. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctlyJeff Layton
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly The current scheme that CIFS uses to sleep and wait for a response is not quite what we want. After sending a request, wait_for_response puts the task to sleep with wait_event(). One of the conditions for wait_event is a timeout (using time_after()). The problem with this is that there is no guarantee that the process will ever be woken back up. If the server stops sending data, then cifs_demultiplex_thread will leave its response queue sleeping. I think the only thing that saves us here is the fact that cifs_dnotify_thread periodically (every 15s) wakes up sleeping processes on all response_q's that have calls in flight. This makes for unnecessary wakeups of some processes. It also means large variability in the timeouts since they're all woken up at once. Instead of this, put the tasks to sleep with wait_event_timeout. This makes them wake up on their own if they time out. With this change, cifs_dnotify_thread should no longer be needed. I've been testing this in conjunction with some other patches that I'm working on. It doesn't seem to affect performance at all with with heavy I/O. Identical iozone -ac runs complete in almost exactly the same time (<1% difference in times). Thanks to Wasrshi Nimara for initially pointing this out. Wasrshi, it would be nice to know whether this patch also helps your testcase. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Wasrshi Nimara <warshinimara@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-12-26[CIFS] Can not mount with prefixpath if root directory of share is inaccessibleSteve French
Windows allows you to deny access to the top of a share, but permit access to a directory lower in the path. With the prefixpath feature of cifs (ie mounting \\server\share\directory\subdirectory\etc.) this should have worked if the user specified a prefixpath which put the root of the mount at a directory to which he had access, but we still were doing a lookup on the root of the share (null path) when we should have been doing it on the prefixpath subdirectory. This fixes Samba bug # 5925 Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>