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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-02-03T16:39:06Z

From: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.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@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.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;

/*