[PATCH] cifs: Do not init smb requests or block when sending requests

if cifsd thread is no longer running to demultixplex responses.

Do not send FindClose request when FindFirst failed without reaching end
of search. 

Signed-off-by: Steve French (sfrench@us.ibm.com)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index bd3b55e1be17..4d2404305ab6 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 Version 1.34
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 Fix error mapping of the TOO_MANY_LINKS (hardlinks) case.
-Do not oops if user kills cifs oplock kernel thread.
+Do not oops if root user kills cifs oplock kernel thread or
+kills the cifsd thread (NB: killing the cifs kernel threads is not
+recommended, unmount and rmmod cifs will kill them when they are
+no longer needed).
 
 Version 1.33
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