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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs/cifssmb.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c index 5630282f2821..ae5e451a0d08 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c @@ -2516,7 +2516,17 @@ querySymLinkRetry: return rc; } -#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL +#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_SYMLINK_EXPERIMENTAL +/* + * Recent Windows versions now create symlinks more frequently + * and they use the "reparse point" mechanism below. We can of course + * do symlinks nicely to Samba and other servers which support the + * CIFS Unix Extensions and we can also do SFU symlinks and "client only" + * "MF" symlinks optionally, but for recent Windows we really need to + * reenable the code below and fix the cifs_symlink callers to handle this. + * In the interim this code has been moved to its own config option so + * it is not compiled in by default until callers fixed up and more tested. + */ int CIFSSMBQueryReparseLinkInfo(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon, const unsigned char *searchName, @@ -2618,7 +2628,7 @@ qreparse_out: return rc; } -#endif /* CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */ +#endif /* CIFS_SYMLINK_EXPERIMENTAL */ /* BB temporarily unused */ #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_POSIX |