From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753400Ab1FCKPR (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2011 06:15:17 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:34573 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751602Ab1FCKPP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Jun 2011 06:15:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4DE8B449.2000008@suse.de> Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:45:37 +0530 From: Suresh Jayaraman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 SUSE/3.1.10 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Helge Hafting Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-cifs Subject: Re: [2.6.39] CIFS write failures where 2.6.38 works References: <4DE6103E.6010100@hist.no> In-Reply-To: <4DE6103E.6010100@hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [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 this time, anything accessing CIFS will pause, including "ls". > CIFS eventually becomes unstuck, and I will find that my "ls" succeeded, > but the file copy did not. The file was created, but > with 0 size. > > Trying to copy the file again results in another stall, and so on. > > > When I mount CIFS, I get this message: > CIFS VFS: Unexpected SMB signature > > This happens with 2.6.38 as well as 2.6.39. > > When writes fail in 2.6.39, I also get: > CIFS VFS: Send error in Close = -512 > > Followed by: > CIFS VFS: Server servername has not responded in 300 seconds. > Reconnecting... > > I have also seen > CIFS VFS: Send error in Close = -512 > and > CIFS VFS: Send error in read = -13 -- Suresh Jayaraman