CIFS: Fix readpages retrying on reconnects

If we got a reconnect error from async readv we re-add pages back
to page_list and continue loop. That is wrong because these pages
have been already added to the pagecache but page_list has pages that
have not been added to the pagecache yet. This ends up with a general
protection fault in put_pages after readpages. Fix it by not retrying
the read of these pages and falling back to readpage instead.

Fixes debian bug 762306

Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
index 7c018a1c52f7..5f29354b072a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/file.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
@@ -3568,15 +3568,9 @@ static int cifs_readpages(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
                                 lru_cache_add_file(page);
                                 unlock_page(page);
                                 page_cache_release(page);
-                                if (rc == -EAGAIN)
-                                        list_add_tail(&page->lru, &tmplist);
                         }
+                        /* Fallback to the readpage in error/reconnect cases */
                         kref_put(&rdata->refcount, cifs_readdata_release);
-                        if (rc == -EAGAIN) {
-                                /* Re-add pages to the page_list and retry */
-                                list_splice(&tmplist, page_list);
-                                continue;
-                        }
                         break;
                 }