From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 08:16:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190131071600.GB4500@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1548893250-48583-1-git-send-email-pshilov@microsoft.com>
On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 04:07:30PM -0800, Pavel Shilovsky wrote:
> Commit 28eb24ff75c5 ("cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting").
>
> In case a hostname resolves to a different IP address (e.g. long
> running mounts), make sure to resolve it every time prior to calling
> generic_ip_connect() in reconnect.
>
> This patch needs user space changes of cifs.upcall that set a timeout
> value for the "dns_resolver" key.
>
> Suggested-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <palcantara@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
> ---
> fs/cifs/connect.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)
What stable kernel(s) is this to be applied to?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-31 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-31 0:07 [PATCH] cifs: Always resolve hostname before reconnecting Pavel Shilovsky
2019-01-31 7:16 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-01-31 18:37 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2019-02-01 14:11 ` Sasha Levin
2019-02-01 20:17 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2019-02-02 11:31 ` Greg KH
2019-02-02 11:33 ` Greg KH
2019-02-02 18:13 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2019-02-02 18:17 ` Pavel Shilovsky
2019-02-02 20:30 ` Steve French
2019-02-04 8:54 ` Greg KH
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