Kjell Braden reported this oops:

[  833.211970] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
[  833.212816] IP: [<          (null)>]           (null)
[  833.213280] PGD 1b9b2067 PUD e9f7067 PMD 0
[  833.213874] Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP
[  833.214344] CPU 0
[  833.214458] Modules linked in: des_generic md4 nls_utf8 cifs vboxvideo drm snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq bnep rfcomm snd_timer bluetooth snd_seq_device ppdev snd vboxguest parport_pc joydev mac_hid soundcore snd_page_alloc psmouse i2c_piix4 serio_raw lp parport usbhid hid e1000
[  833.215629]
[  833.215629] Pid: 1752, comm: mount.cifs Not tainted 3.0.0-rc7-bisectcifs-fec11dd9+ #18 innotek GmbH VirtualBox/VirtualBox
[  833.215629] RIP: 0010:[<0000000000000000>]  [<          (null)>]           (null)
[  833.215629] RSP: 0018:ffff8800119c9c50  EFLAGS: 00010282
[  833.215629] RAX: ffffffffa02186c0 RBX: ffff88000c427780 RCX: 0000000000000000
[  833.215629] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffff88000c427780 RDI: ffff88000c4362e8
[  833.215629] RBP: ffff8800119c9c88 R08: ffff88001fc15e30 R09: 00000000d69515c7
[  833.215629] R10: ffffffffa0201972 R11: ffff88000e8f6a28 R12: ffff88000c4362e8
[  833.215629] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88001181aaa6
[  833.215629] FS:  00007f2986171700(0000) GS:ffff88001fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  833.215629] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
[  833.215629] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000001b982000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[  833.215629] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[  833.215629] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[  833.215629] Process mount.cifs (pid: 1752, threadinfo ffff8800119c8000, task ffff88001c1c16f0)
[  833.215629] Stack:
[  833.215629]  ffffffff8116a9b5 ffff8800119c9c88 ffffffff81178075 0000000000000286
[  833.215629]  0000000000000000 ffff88000c4276c0 ffff8800119c9ce8 ffff8800119c9cc8
[  833.215629]  ffffffff8116b06e ffff88001bc6fc00 ffff88000c4276c0 ffff88000c4276c0
[  833.215629] Call Trace:
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8116a9b5>] ? d_alloc_and_lookup+0x45/0x90
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff81178075>] ? d_lookup+0x35/0x60
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8116b06e>] __lookup_hash.part.14+0x9e/0xc0
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8116b1d6>] lookup_one_len+0x146/0x1e0
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff815e4f7e>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xe/0x20
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffffa01eef0d>] cifs_do_mount+0x26d/0x500 [cifs]
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff81163bd3>] mount_fs+0x43/0x1b0
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8117d41a>] vfs_kern_mount+0x6a/0xd0
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8117e584>] do_kern_mount+0x54/0x110
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8117fdc2>] do_mount+0x262/0x840
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff81108a0e>] ? __get_free_pages+0xe/0x50
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8117f9ca>] ? copy_mount_options+0x3a/0x180
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff8118075d>] sys_mount+0x8d/0xe0
[  833.215629]  [<ffffffff815ece82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[  833.215629] Code:  Bad RIP value.
[  833.215629] RIP  [<          (null)>]           (null)
[  833.215629]  RSP <ffff8800119c9c50>
[  833.215629] CR2: 0000000000000000
[  833.238525] ---[ end trace ec00758b8d44f529 ]---

When walking down the path on the server, it's possible to hit a
symlink. The path walking code assumes that the caller will handle that
situation properly, but cifs_get_root() isn't set up for it. This patch
prevents the oops by simply returning an error.

A better solution would be to try and chase the symlinks here, but that's
fairly complicated to handle.

Fixes:

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53221Reported-and-tested-by: Kjell Braden <afflux@pentabarf.de>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>