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Commit 9bf84368 authored by Dai Ngo's avatar Dai Ngo Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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SUNRPC: remove the maximum number of retries in call_bind_status



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Currently call_bind_status places a hard limit of 3 to the number of
retries on EACCES error. This limit was done to prevent NLM unlock
requests from being hang forever when the server keeps returning garbage.
However this change causes problem for cases when NLM service takes
longer than 9 seconds to register with the port mapper after a restart.

This patch removes this hard coded limit and let the RPC handles
the retry based on the standard hard/soft task semantics.

Fixes: 0b760113 ("NLM: Don't hang forever on NLM unlock requests")
Reported-by: default avatarHelen Chao <helen.chao@oracle.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHelen Chao <helen.chao@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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