This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself to the 4.9-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: cifs-reconnect-thread-reschedule-itself.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 18ea43113f5b74a97dd4be9bddbac10d68b1a6ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:29:36 +0100 Subject: CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself From: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 18ea43113f5b74a97dd4be9bddbac10d68b1a6ce upstream. In case of error, smb2_reconnect_server reschedule itself with a delay, to avoid being too aggressive. Signed-off-by: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c +++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c @@ -1987,6 +1987,9 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_s struct cifs_tcon *tcon, *tcon2; struct list_head tmp_list; int tcon_exist = false; + int rc; + int resched = false; + /* Prevent simultaneous reconnects that can corrupt tcon->rlist list */ mutex_lock(&server->reconnect_mutex); @@ -2014,13 +2017,18 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_s spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock); list_for_each_entry_safe(tcon, tcon2, &tmp_list, rlist) { - if (!smb2_reconnect(SMB2_INTERNAL_CMD, tcon)) + rc = smb2_reconnect(SMB2_INTERNAL_CMD, tcon); + if (!rc) cifs_reopen_persistent_handles(tcon); + else + resched = true; list_del_init(&tcon->rlist); cifs_put_tcon(tcon); } cifs_dbg(FYI, "Reconnecting tcons finished\n"); + if (resched) + queue_delayed_work(cifsiod_wq, &server->reconnect, 2 * HZ); mutex_unlock(&server->reconnect_mutex); /* now we can safely release srv struct */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from germano.percossi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/cifs-reconnect-thread-reschedule-itself.patch queue-4.9/cifs-store-results-of-cifs_reopen_file-to-avoid-infinite-wait.patch