The patch below does not apply to the 6.1-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.1.y git checkout FETCH_HEAD git cherry-pick -x b4f60a053a2534c3e510ba0c1f8727566adf8317 # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.> git commit -s git send-email --to 'stable@vger.kernel.org' --in-reply-to '2025062001-pueblo-aching-e101@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.1.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From b4f60a053a2534c3e510ba0c1f8727566adf8317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 22:37:16 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] cifs: dns resolution is needed only for primary channel

When calling cifs_reconnect, before the connection to the server is reestablished, the code today does a DNS resolution and updates server->dstaddr.

However, this is not necessary for secondary channels. Secondary channels use the interface list returned by the server to decide which address to connect to. And that happens after tcon is reconnected and server interfaces are requested.

Signed-off-by: Shyam Prasad N sprasad@microsoft.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Steve French stfrench@microsoft.com

diff --git a/fs/smb/client/connect.c b/fs/smb/client/connect.c index ca1cb01c6ef8..024817d40c5f 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c +++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c @@ -392,7 +392,8 @@ static int __cifs_reconnect(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, try_to_freeze(); cifs_server_lock(server);

- if (!cifs_swn_set_server_dstaddr(server)) { + if (!cifs_swn_set_server_dstaddr(server) && + !SERVER_IS_CHAN(server)) { /* resolve the hostname again to make sure that IP address is up-to-date */ rc = reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname(server); cifs_dbg(FYI, "%s: reconn_set_ipaddr_from_hostname: rc=%d\n", __func__, rc);