Patch "Do not send SMB3 SET_INFO request if nothing is changing" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Do not send SMB3 SET_INFO request if nothing is changing

to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
do-not-send-smb3-set_info-request-if-nothing-is-changing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Steve French <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:23:08 -0500
Subject: Do not send SMB3 SET_INFO request if nothing is changing

From: Steve French <[email protected]>

commit 18dd8e1a65ddae2351d0f0d6dd4a334f441fc5fa upstream.

[CIFS] We had cases where we sent a SMB2/SMB3 setinfo request with all timestamp (and DOS attribute) fields marked as 0 (ie do not change) e.g. on chmod or chown.

---
 fs/cifs/smb2inode.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

@@ -266,9 +266,15 @@ smb2_set_file_info(struct inode *inode,
 	struct tcon_link *tlink;
 	int rc;
 
+	if ((buf->CreationTime == 0) && (buf->LastAccessTime == 0) &&
+	    (buf->LastWriteTime == 0) && (buf->ChangeTime) &&
+	    (buf->Attributes == 0))
+		return 0; /* would be a no op, no sense sending this */
+
 	tlink = cifs_sb_tlink(cifs_sb);
 	if (IS_ERR(tlink))
 		return PTR_ERR(tlink);
+
 	rc = smb2_open_op_close(xid, tlink_tcon(tlink), cifs_sb, full_path,
 				FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES, FILE_OPEN, 0, buf,
 				SMB2_OP_SET_INFO);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/fix-regression-which-breaks-dfs-mounting.patch queue-4.8/cleanup-missing-frees-on-some-ioctls.patch queue-4.8/smb3-guids-should-be-constructed-as-random-but-valid-uuids.patch queue-4.8/clarify-locking-of-cifs-file-and-tcon-structures-and-make-more-granular.patch queue-4.8/do-not-send-smb3-set_info-request-if-nothing-is-changing.patch queue-4.8/set-previous-session-id-correctly-on-smb3-reconnect.patch queue-4.8/cifs-limit-the-overall-credit-acquired.patch queue-4.8/fs-cifs-keep-guid-when-assigning-fid-to-fileinfo.patch queue-4.8/display-number-of-credits-available.patch