SUNRPC: Don't start the retransmission timer when out of socket space

If the socket is full, we're better off just waiting until it empties,
or until the connection is broken. The reason why we generally don't
want to time out is that the call to xprt->ops->release_xprt() will
trigger a connection reset, which isn't helpful...

Let's make an exception for soft RPC calls, since they have to provide
timeout guarantees.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
index 846c34f..b7478d5 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprt.c
@@ -487,13 +487,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xprt_wake_pending_tasks);
  * xprt_wait_for_buffer_space - wait for transport output buffer to clear
  * @task: task to be put to sleep
  * @action: function pointer to be executed after wait
+ *
+ * Note that we only set the timer for the case of RPC_IS_SOFT(), since
+ * we don't in general want to force a socket disconnection due to
+ * an incomplete RPC call transmission.
  */
 void xprt_wait_for_buffer_space(struct rpc_task *task, rpc_action action)
 {
 	struct rpc_rqst *req = task->tk_rqstp;
 	struct rpc_xprt *xprt = req->rq_xprt;
 
-	task->tk_timeout = req->rq_timeout;
+	task->tk_timeout = RPC_IS_SOFT(task) ? req->rq_timeout : 0;
 	rpc_sleep_on(&xprt->pending, task, action);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xprt_wait_for_buffer_space);