[PATCH] workaround for smb_proc_getattr oops
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca> smbfs tends to oops over a null server->ops->getattr in smb_proc_getattr(). Urban says: In 2.5 the server->ops is initialized when smbfs gets a connection, to match whatever the server is capable of or not. This happens after the mount syscall so smbfs is then mounted but not usable. Not sure if smb_lookup is always called before any other operation that uses server->ops. If it is then it would be enough to have a test there. Otherwise I will just change all users of server->ops to verify the pointer first and return -EIO or something. Al Viro says (paraphrasing) ugh, we need mount2(). It doesn't look to me like we'll be getting mount2() in the 2.6 timeframe. Zwane's patch implement's Urban's workaround.
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