Commit 443aeb74 authored by Ronnie Sahlberg's avatar Ronnie Sahlberg Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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cifs: Fix a race condition with cifs_echo_request

[ Upstream commit f2caf901 ]

There is a race condition with how we send (or supress and don't send)
smb echos that will cause the client to incorrectly think the
server is unresponsive and thus needs to be reconnected.

Summary of the race condition:
 1) Daisy chaining scheduling creates a gap.
 2) If traffic comes unfortunate shortly after
    the last echo, the planned echo is suppressed.
 3) Due to the gap, the next echo transmission is delayed
    until after the timeout, which is set hard to twice
    the echo interval.

This is fixed by changing the timeouts from 2 to three times the echo interval.

Detailed description of the bug: https://lutz.donnerhacke.de/eng/Blog/Groundhog-Day-with-SMB-remount



Signed-off-by: default avatarRonnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent ff35fc59
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