Since updating to linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r3 from 2.6.30, I am no longer able to mount SMB shares using mount.cifs. When I try to mount, it behaves as though the mount succeeded (no error messages anywhere), but the mount point is empty. If I boot up in 2.6.30, smb mounts work again, so this is specific to 2.6.31, and it's a pretty serious bug. And yes, I have verified (to the best of my ability) that my cifs and samba-related kernel configuration parameters are identical. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.7.1 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.4.1, glibc-2.10.1-r0, 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.30-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Quad_CPU_Q9450_@_2.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p33 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.3, 3.1.1-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -ggdb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=5" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.netnitco.net http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/ ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="--jobs=5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 bash-completion berkdb bidi bzip2 cairo cdda cdio cdr cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdr encode fbcon ffmpeg filter flac fortran freetype gcj gd gdbm gnutls gpm hal httpd iconv ipv6 isdnlog jadetex java jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos lame lapack ldap live lm_sensors mad matroska mjpeg mmx mng modules mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl openmp openssl pam pcre perl php png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby samba session spl sql sse sse2 sse3 ssl stream svg sysfs tcl tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype unicode utempter vcd vlm vorbis webkit wxwindows x264 xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
There's a couple of patches in the thread linked to in URL.
We need a bit more here. Are you experiencing the same error messages as the thread? If so, did you test the patch in the thread? http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/54414/ Can you post your dmesg with debugging enabled?
I am the same Timothy Miller that started that thread. Jeff sent me that patch directly, and I hope to test it out tomorrow. In the short term, adding "noserverino" to the mount options works around the problem.
I humbly apologize for taking so long on this. I tried Jeff Layton's patch, and it fixed the problem.
(In reply to comment #4) > I humbly apologize for taking so long on this. > > I tried Jeff Layton's patch, and it fixed the problem. > Which patch are you referring to? This one: http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2009-October/005346.html ?
Can you please test this patch and let us know. I want to get a new 2.6.31-rX gentoo-sources out and I would like to include this. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec06aedd44541129840ed52e6165afa3796a27bf
Well, I tried applying that patch, but it failed to apply. Hunk #1 FAILED at 388. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file patch.rej patching file patch Hunk #1 FAILED at 512. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file patch.rej patching file patch Hunk #1 FAILED at 715. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file patch.rej patching file patch Hunk #1 FAILED at 727. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file patch.rej I tried applying it to 2.6.31-gentoo-r6. Also, I'd been using a patched -r3 that was able to mount samba shares, but -r6 (without Layton's patch) is broken. I'm going to see if I can apply HIS patch to -r6 to see if I can get it working again.
Just to be clear, the patch I'm referring to that fixed the problem for me (also with -r6) is mentioned here: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/54414/
Can you please test this patch and let me know if it solves the problem: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=ec06aedd44541129840ed52e6165afa3796a27bf
As far as I can tell, this problem has been resolved in the 2.6.32 kernel. There are still minor out-standing issues that Jeff Layton is aware of. So if you're just moving on to 2.6.32 and not interested in fixing 2.6.31, then you might as well close this bug.
