Patch "SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

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

SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH

to the 4.9-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:
sunrpc-allow-connect-to-return-ehostunreach.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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, 24 Nov 2017 12:00:24 -0500
Subject: SUNRPC: Allow connect to return EHOSTUNREACH

From: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 4ba161a793d5f43757c35feff258d9f20a082940 ]

---
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -2381,6 +2381,7 @@ static void xs_tcp_setup_socket(struct w
 	case -ECONNREFUSED:
 	case -ECONNRESET:
 	case -ENETUNREACH:
+	case -EHOSTUNREACH:
 	case -EADDRINUSE:
 	case -ENOBUFS:
 		/* retry with existing socket, after a delay */

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

queue-4.9/nfsd-ensure-we-check-stateid-validity-in-the-seqid-operation-checks.patch queue-4.9/sunrpc-allow-connect-to-return-ehostunreach.patch queue-4.9/nfsd-close-should-return-the-invalid-special-stateid-for-nfsv4.x-x-0.patch