linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.5 02/23] cifs: fix soft mounts hanging in the reconnect code

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Date:   Mon,  3 Feb 2020 16:20:22 +0000
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@...hat.com>,
        Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>,
        "Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" <pc@....nz>
Subject: [PATCH 5.5 02/23] cifs: fix soft mounts hanging in the reconnect code

From: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@...hat.com>

commit c54849ddd832ae0a45cab16bcd1ed2db7da090d7 upstream.

RHBZ: 1795429

In recent DFS updates we have a new variable controlling how many times we will
retry to reconnect the share.
If DFS is not used, then this variable is initialized to 0 in:

static inline int
dfs_cache_get_nr_tgts(const struct dfs_cache_tgt_list *tl)
{
        return tl ? tl->tl_numtgts : 0;
}

This means that in the reconnect loop in smb2_reconnect() we will immediately wrap retries to -1
and never actually get to pass this conditional:

                if (--retries)
                        continue;

The effect is that we no longer reach the point where we fail the commands with -EHOSTDOWN
and basically the kernel threads are virtually hung and unkillable.

Fixes: a3a53b7603798fd8 (cifs: Add support for failover in smb2_reconnect())
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@...rosoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@....nz>
CC: Stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ smb2_reconnect(__le16 smb2_command, stru
 		if (server->tcpStatus != CifsNeedReconnect)
 			break;
 
-		if (--retries)
+		if (retries && --retries)
 			continue;
 
 		/*