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

[Tim Gardner]

On 6/1/21 8:31 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 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>
> 

I thought they would be suitable for master as well, but MS wanted a 
respin in the 2021-05-10 cycle. Hence the reason these are only for 
Azure for now. I'll send patches for master soon.

rtg
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Tim Gardner
Canonical, Inc