[CIFS] Support for legacy servers part 3 - Add support for Open and most

of Read support.

Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index 5311c50734b0..248ddebd67f4 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -184,6 +184,13 @@ cifs_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode,
                          desiredAccess, CREATE_NOT_DIR,
                          &fileHandle, &oplock, buf, cifs_sb->local_nls,
                          cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR);
+        if(rc == -EIO) {
+                /* old server, retry the open legacy style */
+                rc = SMBLegacyOpen(xid, pTcon, full_path, disposition,
+                        desiredAccess, CREATE_NOT_DIR,
+                        &fileHandle, &oplock, buf, cifs_sb->local_nls,
+                        cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR);
+        } 
         if (rc) {
                 cFYI(1, ("cifs_create returned 0x%x ", rc));
         } else {