This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Revert "NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_BADSESSION/NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION replies to OP_SEQUENCE" to the 4.10-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: revert-nfsv4.1-handle-nfs4err_badsession-nfs4err_deadsession-replies-to-op_sequence.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From a5e14c9376871ee74fe93fdcb380c5d54eaa2d43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:50:18 -0500 Subject: Revert "NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_BADSESSION/NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION replies to OP_SEQUENCE" From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit a5e14c9376871ee74fe93fdcb380c5d54eaa2d43 upstream. This reverts commit 2cf10cdd486c362f983abdce00dc1127e8ab8c59. The patch has been seen to cause excessive looping. Reported-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -815,10 +815,6 @@ static int nfs41_sequence_process(struct case -NFS4ERR_SEQ_FALSE_RETRY: ++slot->seq_nr; goto retry_nowait; - case -NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION: - case -NFS4ERR_BADSESSION: - nfs4_schedule_session_recovery(session, res->sr_status); - goto retry_nowait; default: /* Just update the slot sequence no. */ slot->seq_done = 1; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.10/nfsv4-fix-reboot-recovery-in-copy-offload.patch queue-4.10/revert-nfsv4.1-handle-nfs4err_badsession-nfs4err_deadsession-replies-to-op_sequence.patch queue-4.10/pnfs-flexfiles-if-the-layout-is-invalid-it-must-be-updated-before-retrying.patch queue-4.10/nfsv4-fix-memory-and-state-leak-in-_nfs4_open_and_get_state.patch