Commit 8a388c1f authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever
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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: 44df6f43 ("NFSD: add delegation reaper to react to low memory condition")
Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
parent 45de52d0
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