Re: fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules preventsmount -t cifs from working

[Arthur Marsh]

Eric W. Biederman wrote, on 12/03/13 00:07:
> Arthur Marsh<arthur.marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  writes:
>
> > Hi, I found that Linux kernel 3.9.0-rc2 would not mount a remote cifs
> > filesystem, and ran a git bisect which identified the following
> > commit:
> >
> > Is there a patch already present somewhere to fix this problem?
>
> Grr.  It was in linux-next for nearly a week and I checked an double
> checked that patch.
>
> This should fix it.
>
> Eric
>
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> index 1a052c0..3cf8a15 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
> @@ -777,6 +777,7 @@ struct file_system_type cifs_fs_type = {
>   	.kill_sb = cifs_kill_sb,
>   	/*  .fs_flags */
>   };
> +MODULE_ALIAS_FS("cifs");
>   const struct inode_operations cifs_dir_inode_ops = {
>   	.create = cifs_create,
>   	.atomic_open = cifs_atomic_open,

Confirmed... cifs mounts now work again thanks.

Regards,

Arthur.
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