From: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu>
CC: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: Fix infinite looping in
 rpc_clnt_iterate_for_each_xprt
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:57:03 +0000
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> On Aug 29, 2016, at 12:49, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@math.uh.edu> wrote=
:
>=20
> I have found (with Chuck's help) that this patch appears to fix an issue
> I've been struggling with for the past couple of weeks, where my clients
> will just hammer the server with BIND_CONN_TO_SESSION requests endlessly
> until the server dies from OOM.  Really, Chuck found the patch and all I
> did was apply it locally.  At least that issue hasn't reoccurred so far.
>=20
> The server probably shouldn't die from a confused client, but that's a
> separate issue.
>=20
> However, this patch isn't tagged for stable.  Would you consider
> submitting it there?  I'm hoping that Fedora will integrate it locally
> but I think it would be of more general use.


Feel free to submit it to stable@vger.kernel.org=85

Cheers,
  Trond