This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    cifs: convert prefixpath delimiters in

to the 3.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cifs-convert-prefixpath-delimiters-in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <sta...@kernel.org> know about it.


>From f9e8c45002cacad536b338dfa9e910e341a49c31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Layton <jlay...@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 10:28:01 -0400
Subject: cifs: convert prefixpath delimiters in
 cifs_build_path_to_root

From: Jeff Layton <jlay...@redhat.com>

commit f9e8c45002cacad536b338dfa9e910e341a49c31 upstream.

Regression from 2.6.39...

The delimiters in the prefixpath are not being converted based on
whether posix paths are in effect. Fixes:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727834

Reported-and-Tested-by: Iain Arnell <iarn...@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Patrick Oltmann <patrick.oltm...@gmx.net>
Cc: Pavel Shilovsky <piastr...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlay...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfre...@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>

---
 fs/cifs/inode.c |   14 ++------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -764,20 +764,10 @@ char *cifs_build_path_to_root(struct smb
        if (full_path == NULL)
                return full_path;
 
-       if (dfsplen) {
+       if (dfsplen)
                strncpy(full_path, tcon->treeName, dfsplen);
-               /* switch slash direction in prepath depending on whether
-                * windows or posix style path names
-                */
-               if (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_POSIX_PATHS) {
-                       int i;
-                       for (i = 0; i < dfsplen; i++) {
-                               if (full_path[i] == '\\')
-                                       full_path[i] = '/';
-                       }
-               }
-       }
        strncpy(full_path + dfsplen, vol->prepath, pplen);
+       convert_delimiter(full_path, CIFS_DIR_SEP(cifs_sb));
        full_path[dfsplen + pplen] = 0; /* add trailing null */
        return full_path;
 }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jlay...@redhat.com are

queue-3.0/cifs-cope-with-negative-dentries-in-cifs_get_root.patch
queue-3.0/cifs-convert-prefixpath-delimiters-in.patch

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