Hi Sachin, On 21 October 2016 at 10:52, Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Commit 4fcd1813e640 ("Fix reconnect to not defer smb3 session reconnect > long after socket reconnect") changes the behaviour of the SMB2 echo > service and causes it to renegotiate after a socket reconnect. However > under default settings, the echo service could take up to 120 seconds to > be scheduled. > > The patch forces the echo service to be called immediately resulting a > negotiate call being made immediately on reconnect. > > Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This commit is causing a flood of connections to Samba server as well as high server CPU load when the Samba is restarted while CIFS share is mounted on the client. This can cause the Samba server to become slow or unresponsive resulting in denial of service to other users connected to the Samba server. Bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194531 Could you please have a look? Thanks. Regards, Jonathan -- 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