[CIFS] Fix hang in find_writable_file

Caused by unneeded reopen during reconnect while spinlock held.

Fixes kernel bugzilla bug #7903

Thanks to Lin Feng Shen for testing this, and Amit Arora for
some nice problem determination to narrow this down.

Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/README b/fs/cifs/README
index 85f1eb14083e..fa096f9c824d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/README
+++ b/fs/cifs/README
@@ -444,6 +444,13 @@ A partial list of the supported mount options follows:
  noposixpaths   If CIFS Unix extensions are supported, do not request
                 posix path name support (this may cause servers to
                 reject creatingfile with certain reserved characters).
+ nounix         Disable the CIFS Unix Extensions for this mount (tree
+                connection). This is rarely needed, but it may be useful
+                in order to turn off multiple settings all at once (ie
+                posix acls, posix locks, posix paths, symlink support
+                and retrieving uids/gids/mode from the server) or to
+                work around a bug in server which implement the Unix
+                Extensions.
  nobrl          Do not send byte range lock requests to the server.
                 This is necessary for certain applications that break
                 with cifs style mandatory byte range locks (and most