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

Guilherme G. Piccoli gpiccoli at canonical.com
Thu May 27 15:51:26 UTC 2021


On 27/05/2021 11:49, 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
> 

Great patchset Tim, thank you - LGTM:

Acked-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli at canonical.com>



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