When a cache entry is replaced, the "expiry_time" get set to
zero by a call to "cache_fresh_locked(..., 0)" at the end of
"sunrpc_cache_update".
This low expiry time makes cache_check() think that the 'refresh_age'
is negative, so the 'age' is comparatively large and a refresh is
triggered.
However refreshing a replaced entry it pointless, it cannot achieve
anything useful.
So teach cache_check to ignore a low refresh_age when expiry_time
is zero.
Reported-by: Bodo Stroesser <bstroesser@ts.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
        if (rqstp == NULL) {
                if (rv == -EAGAIN)
                        rv = -ENOENT;
-       } else if (rv == -EAGAIN || age > refresh_age/2) {
+       } else if (rv == -EAGAIN ||
+                  (h->expiry_time != 0 && age > refresh_age/2)) {
                dprintk("RPC:       Want update, refage=%ld, age=%ld\n",
                                refresh_age, age);
                if (!test_and_set_bit(CACHE_PENDING, &h->flags)) {