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NFSD: Skip sending CB_RECALL_ANY when the backchannel isn't up
authorChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:09:24 +0000 (17:09 -0500)
committerChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:10:55 +0000 (09:10 -0400)
commit8a388c1fabeb6606e16467b23242416c0dbeffad
tree3cef3d6a37e87ae070d1b4ce9cbfdf1aeb2eadc9
parent45de52d034395c9e6146f7134f36cbdec7820691
NFSD: Skip sending CB_RECALL_ANY when the backchannel isn't up

NFSD sends CB_RECALL_ANY to clients when the server is low on
memory or that client has a large number of delegations outstanding.

We've seen cases where NFSD attempts to send CB_RECALL_ANY requests
to disconnected clients, and gets confused. These calls never go
anywhere if a backchannel transport to the target client isn't
available. Before the server can send any backchannel operation, the
client has to connect first and then do a BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION.

This patch doesn't address the root cause of the confusion, but
there's no need to queue up these optional operations if they can't
go anywhere.

Fixes: 44df6f439a17 ("NFSD: add delegation reaper to react to low memory condition")
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c