This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SUNRPC allow for unspecified transport time in rpc_clnt_add_xprt to the 5.16-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: sunrpc-allow-for-unspecified-transport-time-in-rpc_c.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.16 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 11cd926928c89257de093cf52384306b800d009f Author: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Dec 9 14:53:34 2021 -0500 SUNRPC allow for unspecified transport time in rpc_clnt_add_xprt [ Upstream commit b8a09619a56334414cbd7f935a0796240d0cc07e ] If the supplied argument doesn't specify the transport type, use the type of the existing rpc clnt and its existing transport. Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c index a312ea2bc4405..c83fe618767c4 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c @@ -2900,7 +2900,7 @@ int rpc_clnt_add_xprt(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, unsigned long connect_timeout; unsigned long reconnect_timeout; unsigned char resvport, reuseport; - int ret = 0; + int ret = 0, ident; rcu_read_lock(); xps = xprt_switch_get(rcu_dereference(clnt->cl_xpi.xpi_xpswitch)); @@ -2914,8 +2914,11 @@ int rpc_clnt_add_xprt(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, reuseport = xprt->reuseport; connect_timeout = xprt->connect_timeout; reconnect_timeout = xprt->max_reconnect_timeout; + ident = xprt->xprt_class->ident; rcu_read_unlock(); + if (!xprtargs->ident) + xprtargs->ident = ident; xprt = xprt_create_transport(xprtargs); if (IS_ERR(xprt)) { ret = PTR_ERR(xprt);