This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled SUNRPC: don't map EKEYEXPIRED to EACCES in call_refreshresult to the 3.4-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-don-t-map-ekeyexpired-to-eacces-in-call_refreshresult.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f1ff0c27fd9987c59d707cd1a6b6c1fc3ae0a250 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:59:13 -0400 Subject: SUNRPC: don't map EKEYEXPIRED to EACCES in call_refreshresult From: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f1ff0c27fd9987c59d707cd1a6b6c1fc3ae0a250 upstream. The NFS layer needs to know when a key has expired. This change also returns -EKEYEXPIRED to the application, and the informative "Key has expired" error message is displayed. The user then knows that credential renewal is required. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c @@ -1336,9 +1336,9 @@ call_refreshresult(struct rpc_task *task return; case -ETIMEDOUT: rpc_delay(task, 3*HZ); - case -EKEYEXPIRED: case -EAGAIN: status = -EACCES; + case -EKEYEXPIRED: if (!task->tk_cred_retry) break; task->tk_cred_retry--; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from andros@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/sunrpc-don-t-map-ekeyexpired-to-eacces-in-call_refreshresult.patch queue-3.4/sunrpc-handle-ekeyexpired-in-call_refreshresult.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html