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Commit 6221f1d9 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever
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SUNRPC: Fix backchannel RPC soft lockups



Currently, after the forward channel connection goes away,
backchannel operations are causing soft lockups on the server
because call_transmit_status's SOFTCONN logic ignores ENOTCONN.
Such backchannel Calls are aggressively retried until the client
reconnects.

Backchannel Calls should use RPC_TASK_NOCONNECT rather than
RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN. If there is no forward connection, the server is
not capable of establishing a connection back to the client, thus
that backchannel request should fail before the server attempts to
send it. Commit 58255a4e ("NFSD: NFSv4 callback client should
use RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN") was merged several years before
RPC_TASK_NOCONNECT was available.

Because setup_callback_client() explicitly sets NOPING, the NFSv4.0
callback connection depends on the first callback RPC to initiate
a connection to the client. Thus NFSv4.0 needs to continue to use
RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN.

Suggested-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.20+
parent 43e33924
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