What does "kernel: CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of 0xXXXXXXXX returned -22" error mean? How to avoid it?

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Issue

  • What does "CIFS VFS: strtoUCS" error mean and how to avoid it?

    # cat /var/log/message
    ....
    kernel: CIFS VFS: strtoUCS: char2uni of 0xXXXXXXXX returned -22
    ....
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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