1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 534274056329..702ede309b06 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -710,9 +710,16 @@ call_encode(struct rpc_task *task)
                 rpc_exit(task, -EIO);
                 return;
         }
-        if (encode != NULL)
-                task->tk_status = rpcauth_wrap_req(task, encode, req, p,
-                                task->tk_msg.rpc_argp);
+        if (encode == NULL)
+                return;
+
+        task->tk_status = rpcauth_wrap_req(task, encode, req, p,
+                        task->tk_msg.rpc_argp);
+        if (task->tk_status == -ENOMEM) {
+                /* XXX: Is this sane? */
+                rpc_delay(task, 3*HZ);
+                task->tk_status = -EAGAIN;
+        }
 }
 
 /*