[TriLUG] CIFS: 'file name too long' on a file name that is not long

[Jack Hill via TriLUG]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017, Jack Hill via TriLUG wrote:

> Ah ha! I found the smoking gun: I believe that it is 
> <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?h=v4.9.58&id=5ed70f7db9afe5e4e5cc1fa2239676e3b2d2c5b2>, 
> which appears in Debian's linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64 package. For some 
> reason this condition is triggering for me when it shouldn't. Now to 
> figure out why… Suggestions welcome!

And thanks to the linux-cifs developers, I now have a fix: 
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-cifs/msg13462.html

Yay, happy endings.
Jack