The pNFS/flexfiles I/O requests are sent with the SOFTCONN flag set, so they automatically time out if the connection breaks. It should therefore not be necessary to have the soft flag set in addition. Fixes: 5f01d9539496 ("nfs41: create NFSv3 DS connection if specified") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c | 15 ++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c index c0046c348910..82af4809b869 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs_nfs.c @@ -627,11 +627,16 @@ static int _nfs4_pnfs_v3_ds_connect(struct nfs_server *mds_srv, /* Add this address as an alias */ rpc_clnt_add_xprt(clp->cl_rpcclient, &xprt_args, rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt, NULL); - } else - clp = get_v3_ds_connect(mds_srv, - (struct sockaddr *)&da->da_addr, - da->da_addrlen, IPPROTO_TCP, - timeo, retrans); + continue; + } + clp = get_v3_ds_connect(mds_srv, + (struct sockaddr *)&da->da_addr, + da->da_addrlen, IPPROTO_TCP, + timeo, retrans); + if (IS_ERR(clp)) + continue; + clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_softerr = 0; + clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_softrtry = 0; } if (IS_ERR(clp)) { -- 2.21.0