[07:25] <juergh> akselmo, creating the patch from the code snippet in the ticket is the easy part. coming up with a justification why it's needed not so much without knowing anything about it ;-)
[13:32] <nemo> Hey folks. I encountered rpeated crash in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS when they reboot one of the remote CIFS mounts that looks a lot like https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000019780
[13:32] <nemo> https://github.com/openSUSE/kernel/commit/a52930353eaf443489a350a135c5525a4acbbf56#diff-365e109294d97a19e9458fa962d35d39ee87651aa464ad34c68606d81783c170
[13:32] <nemo> I was wondering if this never got pushed upstream
[13:33] <nemo> Could someone help me locate the branch for 20.04 LTS 5.40.0-80 x86_64 so I could look over that section?
[13:33] <nemo> fs/cifs/connect.c
[13:34] <nemo> symptoms are super annoying at present since mounts just hang and rebooting seems only fix.  
[13:34] <nemo> (our current workaround is just to leave the windows mounts active only briefly on Ubuntu 20.04)
[14:01] <mhcerri> hi, nemo. you can find the source here: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/focal/log/?h=Ubuntu-5.4.0-80.90
[14:03] <nemo> mhcerri: thank you
[14:03] <mhcerri> nemo, I think we have this commit in the version in proposed as by https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1935833
[14:04] <nemo> mhcerri: oooh even better
[14:04] <nemo> good to have someone experieinced looking at it
[14:04] <nemo> mhcerri: so it'll be in  backports shortly?
[14:04] <mhcerri> let me check the proposed version to confirm
[14:04] <nemo> mhcerri: interesting. reported only recently. The opensuse one was fixed last summer
[14:05] <nemo> I wonder how often things like this fail to make it back upstream ☹
[14:07] <nemo> hm.
[14:07] <nemo> I wonder how similar the OpenSUSE code is to the ubuntu
[14:07] <nemo> let's see ☺
[14:07] <mhcerri> nemo, yeah. this commit in included in 5.4.0-81.9
[14:08] <mhcerri> https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/focal/log/?h=Ubuntu-5.4.0-81.91&qt=grep&q=cifs
[14:08] <nemo> man. this was driving us bonkers for like a month
[14:08] <nemo> moutn hangs, reboot, mount hangs, reboot
[14:09] <nemo> finally made a sudo script to load mounts on demand as needed
[14:09] <nemo> but good to know. thanks!
[14:09] <mhcerri> nemo, if you want you can try to install the version in focal-proposed to confirm it fixes it. this version is scheduled to be released next week
[14:10] <nemo> mhcerri: could do that in test perhaps
[14:10] <nemo> Loool
[14:10] <nemo> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
[14:10] <nemo> w/ author date of last year
[14:11] <nemo> ok. so just the opensuse one. very very late... and somehow missing the 20.04 release. just an oversight I suppose
[14:11] <nemo> so. yay!
[14:11] <nemo> thanks again.
[14:15] <nemo> mhcerri: so. sorry. I've never done this before and don't want to screw up the server, even if it is just our "cmtest" server
[14:15] <nemo> mhcerri: I just do apt -t focal-proposed update linux-kernel ?
[14:15] <nemo> then reboot and wait to see if the mount dies again?
[14:16] <nemo> oh. I guess I probably need to make sure the apt list includes proposed. lessee
[14:16] <mhcerri> nemo, you can find the details in this link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed
[14:16] <nemo> thanks
[14:19] <nemo> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/fs/cifs/connect.c  hmmmm checked in last august. what the heck
[14:19] <nemo> how did this not make it into ubuntu 20.04!
[14:19] <nemo> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/cifs/connect.c?id=a52930353eaf443489a350a135c5525a4acbbf56
[14:20] <nemo> oh wait. I'm an idiot. ofc it wouldn't be in 20.04 - last year, the plague year is melding in my mind with this one
[14:20] <nemo> it just took a long time to get pulled into backports 😃
[14:21] <mhcerri> nemo, that was only included in 5.9 and since it doesn't have a fixes tag or cc:stable in it, it is not easy to "find" such fixes until we have a bug report and we start to investigate it
[14:21] <nemo> right
[14:21] <nemo> mhcerri: naw. it was me mixing up 21.04 and 20.04 ☺
[14:21] <mhcerri> hehe
[16:15] <akselmo> juergh: heh true. i'll keep talking with the peeps about this on github and hopefully we get somekind of patch for this one day. thanks for the help everyone!