On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 04:10:37PM +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote:
> ..compiled without LFS support, but running on 64-bit kernel.
> 
> Currently, when a broken (compiled without LFS support) 32-bit application on
> a 64-bit kernel tries to do a stat(), it fails with -EOVERFLOW error. This
> problem happens because the 32-bit application is unable to fit the huge
> 64-bit inode number in its target structure field.

This is nothing cifs specific.  Please do it in a generic way (e.g.
sysctl) in the VFS.

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