This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4.1: don't retry BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION on session error to the 5.15-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: nfsv4.1-don-t-retry-bind_conn_to_session-on-session-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0a051f02f972dc3016b1d07c096bbdd770f1b773 Author: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 24 10:38:42 2022 -0400 NFSv4.1: don't retry BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION on session error [ Upstream commit 1d15d121cc2ad4d016a7dc1493132a9696f91fc5 ] There is no reason to retry the operation if a session error had occurred in such case result structure isn't filled out. Fixes: dff58530c4ca ("NFSv4.1: fix handling of backchannel binding in BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION") Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 53be03681f69..dababa6cf3f4 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -8341,6 +8341,7 @@ nfs4_bind_one_conn_to_session_done(struct rpc_task *task, void *calldata) case -NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION: nfs4_schedule_session_recovery(clp->cl_session, task->tk_status); + return; } if (args->dir == NFS4_CDFC4_FORE_OR_BOTH && res->dir != NFS4_CDFS4_BOTH) {