Patch "CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     cifs-reconnect-thread-reschedule-itself.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 18ea43113f5b74a97dd4be9bddbac10d68b1a6ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:29:36 +0100
Subject: CIFS: reconnect thread reschedule itself

From: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>

commit 18ea43113f5b74a97dd4be9bddbac10d68b1a6ce upstream.

In case of error, smb2_reconnect_server reschedule itself
with a delay, to avoid being too aggressive.

Signed-off-by: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c |   10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c
@@ -1987,6 +1987,9 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_s
 	struct cifs_tcon *tcon, *tcon2;
 	struct list_head tmp_list;
 	int tcon_exist = false;
+	int rc;
+	int resched = false;
+
 
 	/* Prevent simultaneous reconnects that can corrupt tcon->rlist list */
 	mutex_lock(&server->reconnect_mutex);
@@ -2014,13 +2017,18 @@ void smb2_reconnect_server(struct work_s
 	spin_unlock(&cifs_tcp_ses_lock);
 
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(tcon, tcon2, &tmp_list, rlist) {
-		if (!smb2_reconnect(SMB2_INTERNAL_CMD, tcon))
+		rc = smb2_reconnect(SMB2_INTERNAL_CMD, tcon);
+		if (!rc)
 			cifs_reopen_persistent_handles(tcon);
+		else
+			resched = true;
 		list_del_init(&tcon->rlist);
 		cifs_put_tcon(tcon);
 	}
 
 	cifs_dbg(FYI, "Reconnecting tcons finished\n");
+	if (resched)
+		queue_delayed_work(cifsiod_wq, &server->reconnect, 2 * HZ);
 	mutex_unlock(&server->reconnect_mutex);
 
 	/* now we can safely release srv struct */


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from germano.percossi@citrix.com are

queue-4.10/cifs-reconnect-thread-reschedule-itself.patch
queue-4.10/cifs-store-results-of-cifs_reopen_file-to-avoid-infinite-wait.patch