samba - Mar 2018 - Backport of all features and bug fixes for kernel client to recent kernels

For those interested in trying out updated features to the Linux
kernel client, but aren't running a recent kernel, I created a full
backport of all relevant fixes and features (ie all changes to cifs.ko
that were not caused by global changes to the VFS interface or Linux
kernel system calls) for Linux kernels version 4.9 through 4.15.
They include all patches accepted upstream (including recent
changesets, those added in 4.16)  so far so include many important new
features (SMB3 encryption, SMB3 direct RDMA support etc.) not just
fixes.   Note that the Linux-stable git tree kernels tend not to
include new features, and only a subset of bug fixes, so these have
much more function than the Linux-stable equivalents of them, but have
received less testing than some of the Linux-stable equivalents.

More information can be found at
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxSMB3_build_backport

I only did limited testing, but seemed ok.  Please post to linux-cifs
mailing list if problems found.


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Thanks,

Steve

Hi Steve,

you should have a look at
[Bug 13107] Missing directories with smbv2: with smbv1, they show up
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13107

This seems to be regression in the new code.

metze

Am 24.03.2018 um 06:47 schrieb Steve French via
samba-technical:
> For those interested in trying out updated features to the Linux
> kernel client, but aren't running a recent kernel, I created a full
> backport of all relevant fixes and features (ie all changes to cifs.ko
> that were not caused by global changes to the VFS interface or Linux
> kernel system calls) for Linux kernels version 4.9 through 4.15.
> They include all patches accepted upstream (including recent
> changesets, those added in 4.16)  so far so include many important new
> features (SMB3 encryption, SMB3 direct RDMA support etc.) not just
> fixes.   Note that the Linux-stable git tree kernels tend not to
> include new features, and only a subset of bug fixes, so these have
> much more function than the Linux-stable equivalents of them, but have
> received less testing than some of the Linux-stable equivalents.
> 
> More information can be found at
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxSMB3_build_backport
> 
> I only did limited testing, but seemed ok.  Please post to linux-cifs
> mailing list if problems found.
Hi


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