1 files changed, 35 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
index 4d35c034755a..e1704da43836 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/netmisc.c
@@ -132,6 +132,34 @@ static const struct smb_to_posix_error mapping_table_ERRHRD[] = {
         {0, 0}
 };
 
+
+/* if the mount helper is missing we need to reverse the 1st slash
+   from '/' to backslash in order to format the UNC properly for
+   ip address parsing and for tree connect (unless the user
+   remembered to put the UNC name in properly). Fortunately we do
+   not have to call this twice (we check for IPv4 addresses
+   first, so it is already converted by the time we
+   try IPv6 addresses */
+static int canonicalize_unc(char *cp)
+{
+        int i;
+
+        for (i = 0; i <= 46 /* INET6_ADDRSTRLEN */ ; i++) {
+                if (cp[i] == 0)
+                        break;
+                if (cp[i] == '\\')
+                        break;
+                if (cp[i] == '/') {
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2
+                        cFYI(1, ("change slash to backslash in malformed UNC"));
+#endif
+                        cp[i] = '\\';
+                        return 1;
+                }
+        }
+        return 0;
+}
+
 /* Convert string containing dotted ip address to binary form */
 /* returns 0 if invalid address */
 
@@ -141,11 +169,13 @@ cifs_inet_pton(int address_family, char *cp, void *dst)
         int ret = 0;
 
         /* calculate length by finding first slash or NULL */
-        /* BB Should we convert '/' slash to '\' here since it seems already
-         * done before this */
-        if ( address_family == AF_INET ) {
-                ret = in4_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst , '\\', NULL);
-        } else if ( address_family == AF_INET6 ) {
+        if (address_family == AF_INET) {
+                ret = in4_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst, '\\', NULL);
+                if (ret == 0) {
+                        if (canonicalize_unc(cp))
+                                ret = in4_pton(cp, -1, dst, '\\', NULL);
+                }
+        } else if (address_family == AF_INET6) {
                 ret = in6_pton(cp, -1 /* len */, dst , '\\', NULL);
         }
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2