[PATCH][SMB3 client] cifs: Show reason why autodisabling serverino support

Steve French smfrench at gmail.com
Tue Jun 17 21:24:10 UTC 2025


Looks like Pali's updated patch (see attached) addressed the concerns
brought up by Tom and Paulo, and does not result in logging any extra
messages, just improving what is logged.   Let me know if any
objections (or acked-by etc. that you want me to add).  Merged into
cifs-2.6.git for-next pending additional testing.

    Extend cifs_autodisable_serverino() function to print also text message why
    the function was called.

    The text message is printed just once for mount then autodisabling
    serverino support. Once the serverino support is disabled for mount it will
    not be re-enabled. So those text messages do not cause flooding logs.

    This change allows to debug issues why cifs.ko decide to turn off server
    inode number support and hence disable support for detection of hardlinks.

    Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali at kernel.org>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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