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Message-Id: <1195478593.29063.24.camel@elijah.suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:23:13 +0100
From: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-cifs-client@...ts.samba.org,
Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] get rid of spurious session
reconnects
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 06:42 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:30:45 +0100
> Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > while merging commits f01d5e14e764b14b6bf5512678523d009254b209 and
> > 638b250766272fcaaa0f7ed2776f58f4ac701914 into SLES10, I've noticed
> > that there's apparently a bug. The code currently looks like this:
> >
> > pdu_length = 4; /* enough to get RFC1001 header */
> > incomplete_rcv:
> > length =
> > kernel_recvmsg(csocket, &smb_msg,
> > &iov, 1, pdu_length, 0 /* BB other
> > flags? */);
> >
> > /* ... some irrelevant code left out ... */
> >
> > } else if (length < 4) { /* <----- HERE IS THE
> > PROBLEM cFYI(1, ("less than four bytes received (%d bytes)",
> > length));
> > pdu_length -= length;
> > msleep(1);
> > goto incomplete_rcv;
> > }
> >
> > I think we should be checking for length < pdu_length, not for length
> > < 4, because if we read 2 bytes in the first run and 2 bytes in the
> > second un, CIFS will still treat the second run as incomplete (and
> > possibly run in an infinite loop). Am I missing something obvious?
> >
>
> I think you're right that the logic there is wrong, but I don't see an
> infinite loop happening. It looks like in this situation, that the next
> call to kernel_recvmsg will be called a size of 0, which should
> eventually return 0. It'll then fall into the previous condition -- do
> a reconnect and then go around the big loop again.
>
> A patch to clean that up would probably be a good thing. We likely
> don't need to do a reconnect here.
OK, here we go:
When retrying kernel_recvmsg() because of a short read, check returned
length against the remaining length, not against total length. This
avoids unneeded session reconnects which would otherwise occur when
kernel_recvmsg() finally returns zero when asked to read zero bytes.
Signed-off-by: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@...e.cz>
connect.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
index c52a76f..f972ec9 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ incomplete_rcv:
csocket = server->ssocket;
wake_up(&server->response_q);
continue;
- } else if (length < 4) {
+ } else if (length < pdu_length) {
cFYI(1, ("less than four bytes received (%d bytes)",
length));
pdu_length -= length;
-
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