Re: fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules prevents mount -t cifs from working

[Eric W. Biederman]

Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi, I found that Linux kernel 3.9.0-rc2 would not mount a remote cifs
> filesystem, and ran a git bisect which identified the following
> commit:
>
> Is there a patch already present somewhere to fix this problem?
>

Grr.  It was in linux-next for nearly a week and I checked an double
checked that patch.

This should fix it. 

Eric


diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 1a052c0..3cf8a15 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ struct file_system_type cifs_fs_type = {
 	.kill_sb = cifs_kill_sb,
 	/*  .fs_flags */
 };
+MODULE_ALIAS_FS("cifs");
 const struct inode_operations cifs_dir_inode_ops = {
 	.create = cifs_create,
 	.atomic_open = cifs_atomic_open,
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