[GIT PULL] smb3 client fixes

From: Steve French

Date: Thu Jul 23 2026 - 16:52:20 EST


Please pull the following changes since commit
1590cf0329716306e948a8fc29f1d3ee87d3989f:

Linux 7.2-rc4 (2026-07-19 13:54:41 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git tags/v7.2-rc4-smb3-client-fixes

for you to fetch changes up to c2f2e83e3bbc5483730fd4ee903182761f1ae50f:

cifs: fix cifsFileInfo leak on kmalloc failure in deferred close
drain paths (2026-07-21 20:19:11 -0500)

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Six client fixes
- Fix leak in cifs_close_deferred_file()
- Fix resolving MacOS symlinks
- Fix stale file size in readdir
- Update git branches in MAINTAINERS file
- Fix bounds check in cifs_filldir
- Fix checks in parse_dfs_referrals()
- Fix DFS referral checks for malformed packet
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Carl Johnson (1):
smb: client: handle STATUS_STOPPED_ON_SYMLINK responses without
a symlink target

Frank Sorenson (2):
cifs: prevent readdir from changing file size due to stale
directory metadata
cifs: fix cifsFileInfo leak on kmalloc failure in deferred close
drain paths

Jay Vadayath (1):
smb: client: bound dirent name against end of SMB response in cifs_filldir

Steve French (1):
Add missing git branch info for cifs and ksmbd to MAINTAINERS file

Yichong Chen (1):
smb: client: validate DFS referral PathConsumed


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Thanks,

Steve