Re: [PATCH] Call echo service immediately after socket reconnect

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 12:15:21PM -0700, Pavel Shilovsky wrote:
> From: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
> 
> Commit b8c600120fc8 ("Call echo service immediately after socket
> reconnect") upstream.
> 
> Commit 4fcd1813e640 ("Fix reconnect to not defer smb3 session reconnect
> long after socket reconnect") changes the behaviour of the SMB2 echo
> service and causes it to renegotiate after a socket reconnect. However
> under default settings, the echo service could take up to 120 seconds to
> be scheduled.
> 
> The patch forces the echo service to be called immediately resulting a
> negotiate call being made immediately on reconnect.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Sachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/connect.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

What stable tree(s) do you want this applied to?  Please be specific
like the documentation tells you to do :)

And CIFS maintainers, come on, your subject lines for patches suck,
please use a prefix like _everyone_ else does to make it more obvious
what part of the kernel is being touched.

thanks,

greg k-h