[Samba] CIFS VFS errors on strtoUCS in messages log

I have little idea what actions this relates to,
but I see about 200 or more of these errors each day
in the messages log file:

May 29 15:55:41 mima kernel: CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -127 returned
-22

No one has complained of a problem. Does anyone know what
it signifies?

--Donald
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Am Dienstag, 17. Juni 2008 schrieb D G Teed:
> I have little idea what actions this relates to,
> but I see about 200 or more of these errors each day
> in the messages log file:
>
> May 29 15:55:41 mima kernel: CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of -127 returned
> -22
>
> No one has complained of a problem. Does anyone know what
> it signifies?
>
> --Donald

the function strtoUCS() is used to convert local pathname/filename characters
to UCS unicode (2 bytes/char), to be used on the wire against a server
which is supporting that char encoding.
The kernel function char2uni() is used to convert each local char to UCS
unicode. In case of error, it returns -EINVAL (== -22).
Note:
In that error case, the failing character is replaced by an
UCS question mark "?" (0x003f)!

- what kind of local character encoding (utf-8, ...) are you using?
- have you used the mount option "iocharset=..." to overwrite that encoding?
- what pathnames/filenames are used when that log msg is written?

Cheers, Günter
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