Patch "Revert "NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_BADSESSION/NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION replies to OP_SEQUENCE"" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Revert "NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_BADSESSION/NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION replies to OP_SEQUENCE"

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
revert-nfsv4.1-handle-nfs4err_badsession-nfs4err_deadsession-replies-to-op_sequence.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:50:18 -0500
Subject: Revert "NFSv4.1: Handle NFS4ERR_BADSESSION/NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION replies to OP_SEQUENCE"

From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

commit a5e14c9376871ee74fe93fdcb380c5d54eaa2d43 upstream.

This reverts commit 2cf10cdd486c362f983abdce00dc1127e8ab8c59.

The patch has been seen to cause excessive looping.

---
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c |    4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

@@ -815,10 +815,6 @@ static int nfs41_sequence_process(struct
 	case -NFS4ERR_SEQ_FALSE_RETRY:
 		++slot->seq_nr;
 		goto retry_nowait;
-	case -NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION:
-	case -NFS4ERR_BADSESSION:
-		nfs4_schedule_session_recovery(session, res->sr_status);
-		goto retry_nowait;
 	default:
 		/* Just update the slot sequence no. */
 		slot->seq_done = 1;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.10/nfsv4-fix-reboot-recovery-in-copy-offload.patch queue-4.10/revert-nfsv4.1-handle-nfs4err_badsession-nfs4err_deadsession-replies-to-op_sequence.patch queue-4.10/pnfs-flexfiles-if-the-layout-is-invalid-it-must-be-updated-before-retrying.patch queue-4.10/nfsv4-fix-memory-and-state-leak-in-_nfs4_open_and_get_state.patch