[PATCH] cifs: fix use-after-free bug in find_writable_file

2015-03-13 Thread David Disseldorp
Under intermittent network outages, find_writable_file() is susceptible to the following race condition, which results in a user-after-free in the cifs_writepages code-path: Thread 1Thread 2 inv_file

Re: DFS referrals support ?

2015-03-13 Thread Franck Eyraud
Le 09/01/2015 20:51, Steve French a écrit : What did you find out about behavior of a more current kernel? (given that your kernel was more than 5 years old, there is a good chance that the behavior has improved in more recent kernels) Sorry for long delay answer, but this issue was put aside