Re: CIFS mount: 3.2.0-rc3 suspend crash

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw-KKrjLPT3xs0@public.gmane.org>]

On Wednesday, November 30, 2011, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:03:59 +0530
> "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat-23VcF4HTsmIX0ybBhKVfKdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org> wrote:

[...]
> 
> cifs: attempt to freeze while looping on a receive attempt
> 
> In the recent overhaul of the demultiplex thread receive path, we
> neglected to ensure that we attempt to freeze on each pass through the
> loop.
> 
> Reported-by: Woody Suwalski <terraluna977-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

I suppose this patch is going to go through the CIFS tree?

Rafael


> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/connect.c b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> index bf82f88..d166e3a 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/connect.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/connect.c
> @@ -441,6 +441,8 @@ cifs_readv_from_socket(struct TCP_Server_Info *server, struct kvec *iov_orig,
>  	smb_msg.msg_controllen = 0;
>  
>  	for (total_read = 0; to_read; total_read += length, to_read -= length) {
> +		try_to_freeze();
> +
>  		if (server_unresponsive(server)) {
>  			total_read = -EAGAIN;
>  			break;
>