[PATCH 4.14 59/68] Revert "cifs: Set CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag on setting cifs_sb->prepath."

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-15T15:05:47Z

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

This reverts commit ad48c641e7c344ae7aba243d3056a22eaba71bfd which is
commit a738c93fb1c17e386a09304b517b1c6b2a6a5a8b upstream.

It is reported to cause problems in older kernels, so revert it for now
until we can figure it out...

Reported-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YG7r0UaivWZL762N@eldamar.lan
Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Cc: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Cc: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -3607,7 +3607,6 @@ int cifs_setup_cifs_sb(struct smb_vol *p
cifs_sb->prepath = kstrdup(pvolume_info->prepath, GFP_KERNEL);
if (cifs_sb->prepath == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags |= CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH;
}

return 0;