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Subject[PATCH] SUNRPC: have soft RPC tasks return -ETIMEDOUT instead of -EIO on major connect timeout
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NFSv4 background mounts do not currently work correctly. While we could
try to fix this in userspace, I think it's really a kernel problem...

When a soft RPC tasks experiences a major timeout during a connection
attempt, it does an rpc_exit with a return code of -EIO. For NFSv4
mounts, this makes the mount() syscall return -EIO. mount.nfs4 then
interprets that as a "permanent" error, and won't attempt a background
mount when bg is specified. Fix this by making call_timeout() do the
rpc_exit() with an error of -ETIMEDOUT.

This fixes the background mount issue, but does make other syscalls
on soft mounts return ETIMEDOUT instead of EIO in this situation.

Comments welcome.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
---
net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 8c6a7f1..b6d409e 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -1162,7 +1162,7 @@ call_timeout(struct rpc_task *task)
if (RPC_IS_SOFT(task)) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: server %s not responding, timed out\n",
clnt->cl_protname, clnt->cl_server);
- rpc_exit(task, -EIO);
+ rpc_exit(task, -ETIMEDOUT);
return;
}

--
1.5.3.6


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