Interrupted System Call with CIFS Mount on Kernel 5.3.0

The above kernel causes previously working CIFS mounts to fail with an “interrupted system call” error. A Linux system which had been using a NAS share for years acquired the new kernel on 17th March 2020 and the mount became unstable thereafter.

Update. Resolved 13th June 2020. The issue was not seen again after an update to kernel version 5.3.0-53.

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