If the server is broken, then retrying forever won't fix it. We should just give up after a while, and return an error to the user. We set the number of retries to 10 for now... Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 18 ++++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 6917311..d95f7f9 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ #define NFS4_POLL_RETRY_MIN (HZ/10) #define NFS4_POLL_RETRY_MAX (15*HZ) +#define NFS4_MAX_LOOP_ON_RECOVER (10) + struct nfs4_opendata; static int _nfs4_proc_open(struct nfs4_opendata *data); static int nfs4_do_fsinfo(struct nfs_server *, struct nfs_fh *, struct nfs_fsinfo *); @@ -426,17 +428,19 @@ out: static int nfs4_recover_session(struct nfs4_session *session) { struct nfs_client *clp = session->clp; + unsigned int loop; int ret; - for (;;) { + for (loop = NFS4_MAX_LOOP_ON_RECOVER; loop != 0; loop--) { ret = nfs4_wait_clnt_recover(clp); if (ret != 0) - return ret; + break; if (!test_bit(NFS4CLNT_SESSION_SETUP, &clp->cl_state)) break; nfs4_schedule_state_manager(clp); + ret = -EIO; } - return 0; + return ret; } static int nfs41_setup_sequence(struct nfs4_session *session, @@ -1444,18 +1448,20 @@ static int _nfs4_proc_open(struct nfs4_opendata *data) static int nfs4_recover_expired_lease(struct nfs_server *server) { struct nfs_client *clp = server->nfs_client; + unsigned int loop; int ret; - for (;;) { + for (loop = NFS4_MAX_LOOP_ON_RECOVER; loop != 0; loop--) { ret = nfs4_wait_clnt_recover(clp); if (ret != 0) - return ret; + break; if (!test_bit(NFS4CLNT_LEASE_EXPIRED, &clp->cl_state) && !test_bit(NFS4CLNT_CHECK_LEASE,&clp->cl_state)) break; nfs4_schedule_state_recovery(clp); + ret = -EIO; } - return 0; + return ret; } /* -- 1.6.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html