Figured it out: it was broken by
b946845a9dc523c759cae2b6a0f6827486c3221a commit - "cifs: cifs_parse_mount_options: do not tokenize mount options in-place". So, as a quick fix I suggest to apply this patch.
[PATCH] CIFS: Fix kfree() with constant string in a null user case
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>