3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 485f2251782f7c44299c491d4676a8a01428d191 upstream. When the server is unavailable due to a networking error, etc, we want the RPC client to respect the timeout delays when attempting to reconnect. Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Fixes: 561ec1603171 (SUNRPC: call_connect_status should recheck bind..) Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c @@ -1798,10 +1798,6 @@ call_connect_status(struct rpc_task *tas trace_rpc_connect_status(task, status); task->tk_status = 0; switch (status) { - /* if soft mounted, test if we've timed out */ - case -ETIMEDOUT: - task->tk_action = call_timeout; - return; case -ECONNREFUSED: case -ECONNRESET: case -ECONNABORTED: @@ -1812,7 +1808,9 @@ call_connect_status(struct rpc_task *tas if (RPC_IS_SOFTCONN(task)) break; case -EAGAIN: - task->tk_action = call_bind; + /* Check for timeouts before looping back to call_bind */ + case -ETIMEDOUT: + task->tk_action = call_timeout; return; case 0: clnt->cl_stats->netreconn++; -- 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