Follow-on patch to 7e90d705 which is already in Steve's tree... The check for tcpStatus == CifsGood is not meaningful since it doesn't indicate whether the NEGOTIATE request has been done. Also, clarify why we're checking for maxBuf == 0. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/connect.c | 7 ++++--- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c index 10011e9..161f24c 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c @@ -338,10 +338,11 @@ cifs_echo_request(struct work_struct *work) struct TCP_Server_Info, echo.work); /* - * We cannot send an echo until the NEGOTIATE_PROTOCOL request is done. - * Also, no need to ping if we got a response recently + * We cannot send an echo until the NEGOTIATE_PROTOCOL request is + * done, which is indicated by maxBuf != 0. Also, no need to ping if + * we got a response recently */ - if ((server->tcpStatus != CifsGood) || (server->maxBuf == 0) || + if (server->maxBuf == 0 || time_before(jiffies, server->lstrp + SMB_ECHO_INTERVAL - HZ)) goto requeue_echo; -- 1.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html