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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:09:18 -0500
From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
To: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Cc: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: cifs mount regression in 4.8 and 4.4 stable
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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