diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 1cbe5615993c..5d1f4873d701 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ on smp system corrupts sequence number. Do not reread unnecessarily partial page
 (which we are about to overwrite anyway) when writing out file opened rw.
 When DOS attribute of file on non-Unix server's file changes on the server side
 from read-only back to read-write, reflect this change in default file mode
-(we had been leaving a file's mode read-only until the inode were reloaded)
+(we had been leaving a file's mode read-only until the inode were reloaded).
+Allow setting of attribute back to ATTR_NORMAL (removing readonly dos attribute
+when archive dos attribute not set and we are changing mode back to writeable
+on server which does not support the Unix Extensions).
 
 Version 1.47
 ------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index e75a844accd7..f414526e476a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -1196,6 +1196,7 @@ int cifs_setattr(struct dentry *direntry, struct iattr *attrs)
 	struct cifsFileInfo *open_file = NULL;
 	FILE_BASIC_INFO time_buf;
 	int set_time = FALSE;
+	int set_dosattr = FALSE;
 	__u64 mode = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL;
 	__u64 uid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL;
 	__u64 gid = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL;
@@ -1332,15 +1333,23 @@ int cifs_setattr(struct dentry *direntry, struct iattr *attrs)
 	else if (attrs->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
 		rc = 0;
 		if ((mode & S_IWUGO) == 0) /* not writeable */ {
-			if ((cifsInode->cifsAttrs & ATTR_READONLY) == 0)
+			if ((cifsInode->cifsAttrs & ATTR_READONLY) == 0) {
+				set_dosattr = TRUE;
 				time_buf.Attributes =
 					cpu_to_le32(cifsInode->cifsAttrs |
 						    ATTR_READONLY);
+			}
 		} else if ((mode & S_IWUGO) == S_IWUGO) {
-			if (cifsInode->cifsAttrs & ATTR_READONLY)
+			if (cifsInode->cifsAttrs & ATTR_READONLY) {
+				set_dosattr = TRUE;
 				time_buf.Attributes =
 					cpu_to_le32(cifsInode->cifsAttrs &
 						    (~ATTR_READONLY));
+				/* Windows ignores set to zero */
+				if(time_buf.Attributes == 0)
+					time_buf.Attributes |= 
+						cpu_to_le32(ATTR_NORMAL);
+			}
 		}
 		/* BB to be implemented -
 		   via Windows security descriptors or streams */
@@ -1378,7 +1387,7 @@ int cifs_setattr(struct dentry *direntry, struct iattr *attrs)
 	} else
 		time_buf.ChangeTime = 0;
 
-	if (set_time || time_buf.Attributes) {
+	if (set_time || set_dosattr) {
 		time_buf.CreationTime = 0;	/* do not change */
 		/* In the future we should experiment - try setting timestamps
 		   via Handle (SetFileInfo) instead of by path */