Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/11] cifs: Various changes

From: Pali Rohár

Date: Fri Aug 21 2026 - 17:47:52 EST


Hello, could you look at other of changes in these series?
Steve already merged few of them and others I have rebased (cleanly) on
top of v7.2 release and pushed to my cifs branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pali/linux.git/log/?h=cifs

On Monday 06 July 2026 20:48:08 Pali Rohár wrote:
> This patch series contains various cifs changes which I sent year ago.
> All those patches are rebased on top of the 7.2-rc2 and there is no new
> change in them, just they are rebased for new code base.
>
> I pushed these changes also into my git branch cifs:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pali/linux.git/log/?h=cifs
>
>
> Note that patch "cifs: Remove cifs_backup_query_path_info() and replace
> it by cifs_query_path_info()" is removing these lines:
>
> - move_cifs_info_to_smb2(&data->fi, fi);
> - fdi = (FILE_DIRECTORY_INFO *)fi;
> - si = (FILE_ID_FULL_DIR_INFO *)fi;
>
> And I have feeling that in this old code (which is being) removed could
> be a buffer overflow as it is casting between incompatible structures.
> I have not spent too much time with it as the code is begin removed.
> But maybe some AI tool could be able to confirm if this is some buffer
> overflow or not.
>
>
> Pali Rohár (11):
> cifs: Fix and improve cifs_is_path_accessible() function
> cifs: Remove code for querying FILE_INFO_STANDARD via
> CIFSSMBQPathInfo()
> cifs: Remove CIFSSMBSetPathInfoFB() fallback function
> cifs: Remove cifs_backup_query_path_info() and replace it by
> cifs_query_path_info()
> cifs: Fix validation of EAs for WSL reparse points
> cifs: Validate presence of EA $LXMOD for WSL reparse points
> cifs: Check if server supports EAs before trying to set it for WSL
> cifs: Extend ->set_EA() callback to allow operate on reparse point
> cifs: Create native Window socket file compatible also with WSL
> subsystem
> cifs: Add support for parsing WSL symlinks in version 1 format
> cifs: Add support for creating WSL symlinks in version 1 format
>
> fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h | 10 +-
> fs/smb/client/cifsproto.h | 1 +
> fs/smb/client/cifssmb.c | 79 +++--------
> fs/smb/client/fs_context.c | 11 +-
> fs/smb/client/fs_context.h | 3 +-
> fs/smb/client/inode.c | 98 +-------------
> fs/smb/client/link.c | 3 +-
> fs/smb/client/reparse.c | 267 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> fs/smb/client/smb1ops.c | 35 +++--
> fs/smb/client/smb1proto.h | 4 +-
> fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 6 +-
> fs/smb/client/xattr.c | 3 +-
> fs/smb/common/fscc.h | 5 +-
> 13 files changed, 306 insertions(+), 219 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>