ACK: [PATCH] Revert "cifs: Set CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH flag on setting cifs_sb->prepath."

[Kamal Mostafa]

Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 10:00:37AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1923670
> 
> This reverts commit a2c5e4a083a7e24b35b3eb808b760af6de15bac2 which is
> commit a738c93fb1c17e386a09304b517b1c6b2a6a5a8b upstream.
> 
> It is reported to cause problems in older kernels, so revert it for now
> until we can figure it out...
> 
> Reported-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil at debian.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YG7r0UaivWZL762N@eldamar.lan
> Cc: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad at microsoft.com>
> Cc: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel at suse.com>
> Cc: Steve French <stfrench at microsoft.com>
> Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> (cherry picked from commit ea42fd91d3041b81d704624b87f35b56f3a00841 v5.4.y)
> Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index 67c2e6487479..ab9eeb5ff8e5 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -4198,7 +4198,6 @@ int cifs_setup_cifs_sb(struct smb_vol *pvolume_info,
>  		cifs_sb->prepath = kstrdup(pvolume_info->prepath, GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (cifs_sb->prepath == NULL)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
> -		cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags |= CIFS_MOUNT_USE_PREFIX_PATH;
>  	}
>  
>  	return 0;
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
> 
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