From: Steve French Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:54:08 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [CIFS] work around bug in Samba server handling for posix open X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc1~666^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=64cc2c63694a03393985ffc8b178e72f52dd8a06;p=pandora-kernel.git [CIFS] work around bug in Samba server handling for posix open Samba server (version 3.3.1 and earlier, and 3.2.8 and earlier) incorrectly required the O_CREAT flag on posix open (even when a file was not being created). This disables posix open (create is still ok) after the first attempt returns EINVAL (and logs an error, once, recommending that they update their server). Acked-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Steve French --- diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES index b33c8412e2c8..fc977dfe9593 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES +++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES @@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ to better ensure that we wait for server to write all of the data to server disk (not just write it over the network). Add new mount parameter to allow user to disable sending the (slow) SMB flush on fsync if desired (fsync still flushes all cached write data to the server). +Posix file open support added (turned off after one attempt if server +fails to support it properly, as with Samba server versions prior to 3.3.2) Version 1.56 ------------ diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h index 44ff94d37e18..9fbf4dff5da6 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsglob.h @@ -299,6 +299,7 @@ struct cifsTconInfo { bool unix_ext:1; /* if false disable Linux extensions to CIFS protocol for this mount even if server would support */ bool local_lease:1; /* check leases (only) on local system not remote */ + bool broken_posix_open; /* e.g. Samba server versions < 3.3.2, 3.2.9 */ bool need_reconnect:1; /* connection reset, tid now invalid */ /* BB add field for back pointer to sb struct(s)? */ }; Reading git-diff-tree failed