cifs: add "mfsymlinks" mount option

This is the start for an implementation of "Minshall+French Symlinks"
(see http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/UNIX_Extensions#Minshall.2BFrench_symlinks).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index fa884520fb84..435b912f5de5 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ struct smb_vol {
         bool noautotune:1;
         bool nostrictsync:1; /* do not force expensive SMBflush on every sync */
         bool fsc:1;     /* enable fscache */
+        bool mfsymlinks:1; /* use Minshall+French Symlinks */
         unsigned int rsize;
         unsigned int wsize;
         bool sockopt_tcp_nodelay:1;
@@ -1342,6 +1343,8 @@ cifs_parse_mount_options(char *options, const char *devname,
                                 "/proc/fs/cifs/LookupCacheEnabled to 0\n");
                 } else if (strnicmp(data, "fsc", 3) == 0) {
                         vol->fsc = true;
+                } else if (strnicmp(data, "mfsymlinks", 10) == 0) {
+                        vol->mfsymlinks = true;
                 } else
                         printk(KERN_WARNING "CIFS: Unknown mount option %s\n",
                                                 data);
@@ -2554,6 +2557,14 @@ static void setup_cifs_sb(struct smb_vol *pvolume_info,
                 cFYI(1, "mounting share using direct i/o");
                 cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags |= CIFS_MOUNT_DIRECT_IO;
         }
+        if (pvolume_info->mfsymlinks) {
+                if (pvolume_info->sfu_emul) {
+                        cERROR(1,  "mount option mfsymlinks ignored if sfu "
+                                   "mount option is used");
+                } else {
+                        cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags |= CIFS_MOUNT_MF_SYMLINKS;
+                }
+        }
 
         if ((pvolume_info->cifs_acl) && (pvolume_info->dynperm))
                 cERROR(1, "mount option dynperm ignored if cifsacl "