This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SUNRPC: avoid soft lockup when transmitting UDP to reachable server. 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: sunrpc-avoid-soft-lockup-when-transmitting-udp-to-re.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 0ef3626a452a8a5a0a26ad359f488c34bb15c6b3 Author: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed Jun 19 11:05:13 2024 +1000 SUNRPC: avoid soft lockup when transmitting UDP to reachable server. [ Upstream commit 6258cf25d5e3155c3219ab5a79b970eef7996356 ] Prior to the commit identified below, call_transmit_status() would handle -EPERM and other errors related to an unreachable server by falling through to call_status() which added a 3-second delay and handled the failure as a timeout. Since that commit, call_transmit_status() falls through to handle_bind(). For UDP this moves straight on to handle_connect() and handle_transmit() so we immediately retransmit - and likely get the same error. This results in an indefinite loop in __rpc_execute() which triggers a soft-lockup warning. For the errors that indicate an unreachable server, call_transmit_status() should fall back to call_status() as it did before. This cannot cause the thundering herd that the previous patch was avoiding, as the call_status() will insert a delay. Fixes: ed7dc973bd91 ("SUNRPC: Prevent thundering herd when the socket is not connected") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> 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 f73d4593625cd..38071a6780211 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c @@ -2226,12 +2226,13 @@ call_transmit_status(struct rpc_task *task) task->tk_action = call_transmit; task->tk_status = 0; break; - case -ECONNREFUSED: case -EHOSTDOWN: case -ENETDOWN: case -EHOSTUNREACH: case -ENETUNREACH: case -EPERM: + break; + case -ECONNREFUSED: if (RPC_IS_SOFTCONN(task)) { if (!task->tk_msg.rpc_proc->p_proc) trace_xprt_ping(task->tk_xprt,