ACK/Cmnt: [PATCH 0/4 v3][focal:linux-azure] cifs: On cifs_reconnect, resolve the hostname again

[Stefan Bader]

On 27.05.21 16:49, Tim Gardner wrote:
> v2 - Added an LP BugLink.
> v3 - Added 0bf1bafb17df03fbd0e8b9a086c39e6f24af7193 ("cifs: Avoid error pointer dereference")
>       to correctly return from an error case.
> 
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1929831
> 
> Microsoft has asked to have commit commit 4e456b30f78c429b183db420e23b26cde7e03a78 applied.
> A customer is reporting difficulties, though details are quite sparse.
> The first 3 patches are scaffolding to make the backport simpler.
> 
> [Impact]
> 
> CIFS reconnects fail.
> 
> [Test Plan]
> 
> A test kernel made available to Microsoft has been verified to fix the problem.
> 
> [Where problems could occur]
> 
> This could perturb CIFS connections in new and different ways.
> 
> [Other Info]
> 
> PPA: https://launchpad.net/~timg-tpi/+archive/ubuntu/cifs-reconnect-sf00309672
> 
> 
> 
Is this at some point intended for the distro kernel as well? If not maybe it 
would be better to drop the linux tasks on the bug report completely.


Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>

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