diff --git a/fs/cifs/CHANGES b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
index 13071fa..70c90c0 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/fs/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 opened, read and written as if they were files).  When 1st tree
 connect fails (e.g. due to signing negotiation failure) fix
 leak that causes cifsd not to stop and rmmod to fail to cleanup
-cifs_request_buffers pool.
+cifs_request_buffers pool. Fix problem with POSIX Open/Mkdir on
+bigendian architectures.
 
 Version 1.50
 ------------
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.h b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.h
index 1b11564..0362cd1 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.h
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@
 struct cifs_ntace { /* first part of ACE which contains perms */
 	__u8 type;
 	__u8 flags;
-	__u16 size;
-	__u32 access_req;
+	__le16 size;
+	__le32 access_req;
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 struct cifs_ace { /* last part of ACE which includes user info */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
index 3627229..632070b 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c
@@ -345,7 +345,7 @@
 	user = kmalloc(2 + (len * 2), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (user == NULL)
 		goto calc_exit_2;
-	len = cifs_strtoUCS(user, ses->userName, len, nls_cp);
+	len = cifs_strtoUCS((__le16 *)user, ses->userName, len, nls_cp);
 	UniStrupr(user);
 	hmac_md5_update((char *)user, 2*len, pctxt);
 
@@ -356,7 +356,8 @@
 		domain = kmalloc(2 + (len * 2), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (domain == NULL)
 			goto calc_exit_1;
-		len = cifs_strtoUCS(domain, ses->domainName, len, nls_cp);
+		len = cifs_strtoUCS((__le16 *)domain, ses->domainName, len,
+					nls_cp);
 		/* the following line was removed since it didn't work well
 		   with lower cased domain name that passed as an option.
 		   Maybe converting the domain name earlier makes sense */
diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index eff3226..b179836 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@
 				InformationLevel) - 4;
 	offset = param_offset + params;
 	pdata = (OPEN_PSX_REQ *)(((char *)&pSMB->hdr.Protocol) + offset);
-	pdata->Level = SMB_QUERY_FILE_UNIX_BASIC;
+	pdata->Level = cpu_to_le16(SMB_QUERY_FILE_UNIX_BASIC);
 	pdata->Permissions = cpu_to_le64(mode);
 	pdata->PosixOpenFlags = cpu_to_le32(posix_flags);
 	pdata->OpenFlags =  cpu_to_le32(*pOplock);
@@ -1115,8 +1115,8 @@
 	if (cpu_to_le32(FILE_CREATE) == psx_rsp->CreateAction)
 		*pOplock |= CIFS_CREATE_ACTION;
 	/* check to make sure response data is there */
-	if (psx_rsp->ReturnedLevel != SMB_QUERY_FILE_UNIX_BASIC) {
-		pRetData->Type = -1; /* unknown */
+	if (psx_rsp->ReturnedLevel != cpu_to_le16(SMB_QUERY_FILE_UNIX_BASIC)) {
+		pRetData->Type = cpu_to_le32(-1); /* unknown */
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DEBUG2
 		cFYI(1, ("unknown type"));
 #endif
@@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@
 		if (pSMBr->ByteCount < sizeof(OPEN_PSX_RSP)
 					+ sizeof(FILE_UNIX_BASIC_INFO)) {
 			cERROR(1, ("Open response data too small"));
-			pRetData->Type = -1;
+			pRetData->Type = cpu_to_le32(-1);
 			goto psx_create_err;
 		}
 		memcpy((char *) pRetData,
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index ece17ca..cc119b2 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -947,7 +947,8 @@
 			d_drop(direntry);
 		} else {
 			int obj_type;
-			if (pInfo->Type == -1) /* no return info - go query */ {
+			if (pInfo->Type == cpu_to_le32(-1)) {
+				/* no return info, go query for it */
 				kfree(pInfo);
 				goto mkdir_get_info;
 			}