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From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
To: "Paulo Alcantara \(SUSE\)" <pc@cjr.nz>, smfrench@gmail.com
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, "Paulo Alcantara \(SUSE\)" <pc@cjr.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] cifs: Fix potential softlockups while refreshing DFS cache
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 12:41:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fticw5bx.fsf@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191122153057.6608-4-pc@cjr.nz>

"Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)" <pc@cjr.nz> writes:
> We used to skip reconnects on all SMB2_IOCTL commands due to SMB3+
> FSCTL_VALIDATE_NEGOTIATE_INFO - which made sense since we're still
> establishing a SMB session.
>
> However, when refresh_cache_worker() calls smb2_get_dfs_refer() and
> we're under reconnect, SMB2_ioctl() will not be able to get a proper
> status error (e.g. -EHOSTDOWN in case we failed to reconnect) but an
> -EAGAIN from cifs_send_recv() thus looping forever in
> refresh_cache_worker().


I think we can add a Fixes tag:

Fixes: e99c63e4d86d ("SMB3: Fix deadlock in validate negotiate hits reconnect")

Otherwise looks good.

Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-25 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-22 15:30 [PATCH 0/7] DFS fixes Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 1/7] cifs: Fix use-after-free bug in cifs_reconnect() Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25  7:34   ` Steve French
2019-11-25 11:36   ` Aurélien Aptel
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 2/7] cifs: Fix lookup of root ses in DFS referral cache Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25  7:33   ` Steve French
2019-11-25 11:37   ` Aurélien Aptel
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 3/7] cifs: Fix potential softlockups while refreshing DFS cache Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25 11:41   ` Aurélien Aptel [this message]
2019-11-25 15:35     ` Steve French
2019-11-25 19:53       ` Pavel Shilovsky
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 4/7] cifs: Clean up DFS referral cache Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25 11:54   ` Aurélien Aptel
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 5/7] cifs: Fix potential deadlock when updating vol in cifs_reconnect() Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25 12:01   ` Aurélien Aptel
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 6/7] cifs: Fix retrieval of DFS referrals in cifs_mount() Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25  7:38   ` Steve French
2019-11-22 15:30 ` [PATCH 7/7] cifs: Always update signing key of first channel Paulo Alcantara (SUSE)
2019-11-25 15:48   ` Aurélien Aptel

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