From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934418AbcIVPPp (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:45 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:51826 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933216AbcIVPPn (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:15:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:15:47 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Seth Forshee Cc: Steve French , Aurelien Aptel , Sachin Prabhu , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: cifs mount regression in 4.8 and 4.4 stable Message-ID: <20160922151547.GA3565@kroah.com> References: <20160922150918.GA127053@ubuntu-hedt> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160922150918.GA127053@ubuntu-hedt> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:09:18AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote: > We've received reports from users of a cifs mount regression in our > 4.4-based kernel, e.g. [1]. It is fixed by reverting the follwing commit > from 4.8 which was applied to 4.4 stable: > > a6b5058 fs/cifs: make share unaccessible at root level mountable > > Testing against 4.8-rc7 shows that the problem is present there as well. > > Thanks, > Seth > > [1] http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1626112 Thanks, I'll wait for the fix to land in Linus's tree before doing anything in the stable trees. greg k-h