[linux-cifs-client] Strange kernel messages like "CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni..." appearing

[Marko Käning]

Hi,

I have the tool storeBackup doing my server backups on a mounted 
linux-hosted CIFS share.

See my fstab entry here:

---8X---
//server/backup  /backup-remote       cifs       
noauto,noexec,nodev,user_xattr,username=m.kaening,credentials=/root/ADMIN/backup/credentials,uid=kaening,gid=users,dir_mode=0770,file_mode=0770    
0 0
---8X---

What I do see during the backup procedure are messages like these in my 
syslog:

---8X---
kernel:  CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -28 returned -22
kernel:  CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -28 returned -22
kernel:  CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -4 returned -22
kernel:  CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -4 returned -22
kernel:  CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -10 returned -22
---8X---

Lots of them. Nevertheless the backup seems to work.

Since I am German I use umlauts in path names, which might be the cause of 
this. But I would like to find out which files or paths are affected. How 
to do this and how to avoid this trouble in the future??? Possibly only 
renaming of relevant paths is a way out, I guess?!


Regards,
Marko