cifs_inode->invalid_mapping = false;
        cifs_inode->vfs_inode.i_blkbits = 14;  /* 2**14 = CIFS_MAX_MSGSIZE */
        cifs_inode->server_eof = 0;
+       cifs_inode->uniqueid = 0;
+       cifs_inode->createtime = 0;
 
        /* Can not set i_flags here - they get immediately overwritten
           to zero by the VFS */
 
        bool invalid_mapping:1;         /* pagecache is invalid */
        u64  server_eof;                /* current file size on server */
        u64  uniqueid;                  /* server inode number */
+       u64  createtime;                /* creation time on server */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_FSCACHE
        struct fscache_cookie *fscache;
 #endif
        u64             cf_uniqueid;
        u64             cf_eof;
        u64             cf_bytes;
+       u64             cf_createtime;
        uid_t           cf_uid;
        gid_t           cf_gid;
        umode_t         cf_mode;
 
 
        fattr->cf_eof = le64_to_cpu(info->EndOfFile);
        fattr->cf_bytes = le64_to_cpu(info->AllocationSize);
+       fattr->cf_createtime = le64_to_cpu(info->CreationTime);
 
        if (fattr->cf_cifsattrs & ATTR_DIRECTORY) {
                fattr->cf_mode = S_IFDIR | cifs_sb->mnt_dir_mode;
        if (CIFS_I(inode)->uniqueid != fattr->cf_uniqueid)
                return 0;
 
+       /* use createtime like an i_generation field */
+       if (CIFS_I(inode)->createtime != fattr->cf_createtime)
+               return 0;
+
        /* don't match inode of different type */
        if ((inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) != (fattr->cf_mode & S_IFMT))
                return 0;
        struct cifs_fattr *fattr = (struct cifs_fattr *) opaque;
 
        CIFS_I(inode)->uniqueid = fattr->cf_uniqueid;
+       CIFS_I(inode)->createtime = fattr->cf_createtime;
        return 0;
 }
 
 
        fattr->cf_cifsattrs = le32_to_cpu(info->ExtFileAttributes);
        fattr->cf_eof = le64_to_cpu(info->EndOfFile);
        fattr->cf_bytes = le64_to_cpu(info->AllocationSize);
+       fattr->cf_createtime = le64_to_cpu(info->CreationTime);
        fattr->cf_atime = cifs_NTtimeToUnix(info->LastAccessTime);
        fattr->cf_ctime = cifs_NTtimeToUnix(info->ChangeTime);
        fattr->cf_mtime = cifs_NTtimeToUnix(info->LastWriteTime);