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Commit 6258cf25 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Anna Schumaker
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SUNRPC: avoid soft lockup when transmitting UDP to reachable server.



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: ed7dc973 ("SUNRPC: Prevent thundering herd when the socket is not connected")
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
parent 0e13dd9e
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