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[PATCH] cifs: Do not sleep interruptible after socket connect failure
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.. since it can be due to pending kill.

Update readme information to better describe cifs umount

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Steve French authored and Linus Torvalds committed Apr 29, 2005
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15 changes: 10 additions & 5 deletions fs/cifs/README
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Expand Up @@ -101,12 +101,15 @@ Allowing User Unmounts
======================
To permit users to ummount directories that they have user mounted (see above),
the utility umount.cifs may be used. It may be invoked directly, or if
umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount -i can invoke the cifs umount helper
umount.cifs is placed in /sbin, umount can invoke the cifs umount helper
(at least for most versions of the umount utility) for umount of cifs
mounts. As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked
as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs"). For this utility to succeed
the target path must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must
match the uid of the user who mounted the resource.
mounts, unless umount is invoked with -i (which will avoid invoking a umount
helper). As with mount.cifs, to enable user unmounts umount.cifs must be marked
as suid (e.g. "chmod +s /sbin/umount.cifs") or equivalent (some distributions
allow adding entries to a file to the /etc/permissions file to achieve the
equivalent suid effect). For this utility to succeed the target path
must be a cifs mount, and the uid of the current user must match the uid
of the user who mounted the resource.

Also note that the customary way of allowing user mounts and unmounts is
(instead of using mount.cifs and unmount.cifs as suid) to add a line
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This has no effect if the server does not support
Unicode on the wire.
nomapchars Do not translate any of these seven characters (default).
remount remount the share (often used to change from ro to rw mounts
or vice versa)

The mount.cifs mount helper also accepts a few mount options before -o
including:
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions fs/cifs/connect.c
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Expand Up @@ -178,8 +178,7 @@ cifs_reconnect(struct TCP_Server_Info *server)
server->workstation_RFC1001_name);
}
if(rc) {
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
schedule_timeout(3 * HZ);
msleep(3000);
} else {
atomic_inc(&tcpSesReconnectCount);
spin_lock(&GlobalMid_Lock);
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