Figured it out: it was broken by b946845a commit - "cifs: cifs_parse_mount_options: do not tokenize mount options in-place". So, as a quick fix I suggest to apply this patch.

[PATCH] CIFS: Fix kfree() with constant string in a null user case
Signed-off-by: NPavel Shilovsky <piastryyy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>