cifs: Improve SMB2+ stat() to work also without FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES

If SMB2_OP_QUERY_INFO (called when POSIX extensions are not used) failed
with STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED then it means that caller does not have
permission to open the path with FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES access and therefore
cannot issue SMB2_OP_QUERY_INFO command.

This will result in the -EACCES error from stat() sycall.

There is an alternative way how to query limited information about path but
still suitable for stat() syscall. SMB2 OPEN/CREATE operation returns in
its successful response subset of query information.

So try to open the path without FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES but with
MAXIMUM_ALLOWED access which will grant the maximum possible access to the
file and the response will contain required query information for stat()
syscall.

This will improve smb2_query_path_info() to query also files which do not
grant FILE_READ_ATTRIBUTES access to caller.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>

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