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    SUNRPC: Fix backchannel RPC soft lockups · 6221f1d9
    Chuck Lever authored
    Currently, after the forward channel connection goes away,
    backchannel operations are causing soft lockups on the server
    because call_transmit_status's SOFTCONN logic ignores ENOTCONN.
    Such backchannel Calls are aggressively retried until the client
    reconnects.
    
    Backchannel Calls should use RPC_TASK_NOCONNECT rather than
    RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN. If there is no forward connection, the server is
    not capable of establishing a connection back to the client, thus
    that backchannel request should fail before the server attempts to
    send it. Commit 58255a4e
    
     ("NFSD: NFSv4 callback client should
    use RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN") was merged several years before
    RPC_TASK_NOCONNECT was available.
    
    Because setup_callback_client() explicitly sets NOPING, the NFSv4.0
    callback connection depends on the first callback RPC to initiate
    a connection to the client. Thus NFSv4.0 needs to continue to use
    RPC_TASK_SOFTCONN.
    
    Suggested-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trondmy@hammerspace.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.20+
    6221f1d9