+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #562788 +++ Upstream has has a rash of elusive problem reports in the last several months with CIFS. I finally was able to get a reproducer and track down the cause of at least one of them. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=f12f98dba6ea1517cd7fbb912208893b9c014c15 ...I also have a patch queued up to fix the way dentries are hashed in the readdir code for case-insensitive mounts.
Note that these bugs are generally papered over on RHEL5 by the fact that "noserverino" is the default there.
Setting blocker flag and changing this to a more generic title.
I'd like to see these patches make 5.5. They just hit mainline a day or two ago, but are small fixes and probably ought to go in. BZ#562947: cifs: fix length calculation for converted unicode readdir names BZ#562947: cifs: fix dentry hash calculation for case-insensitive mounts BZ#562947: CIFS shouldn't make mountpoints shrinkable BZ#562947: [CIFS] Maximum username length check in session setup does not match
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