smbd needs to be root when creating a kernel lease on Linux, otherwise it cannot receive signals when the lease is broken. Patch to follow. Jeremy.
Created attachment 9098 [details] git-am fix for 4.0.x, 4.1.x This is the patch that went into master. Already +1 by Simo and Jeremy.
Created attachment 9099 [details] git-am fix for 3.6.x. Slightly modified gpfs fix for 3.6.x. Jeremy.
Re-assigning to Karolin for inclusion in 3.6.next, 4.0.next, 4.1.0. Jeremy.
Pushed to autobuild-v4-1-test, autobuild-v4-0-test and v3-6-test.
Pushed to v4-0-test and v4-1-test. Closing out bug report. Thanks!