Without this patch, the xid used for the client side krpc requests over
UDP was initialized for each "connection". A "connection" for UDP is
rather sketchy and for the kernel NLM a new one is created every 2minutes.
A problem with client side interoperability with a Netapp server for the NLM
was reported and it is believed to be caused by reuse of the same xid.
Although this was never completely diagnosed by the reporter, I could see
how the same xid might get reused, since it is initialized to a value
based on the TOD clock every two minutes.
I suspect initializing the value for every "connection" was inherited from
userland library code, where having a global xid was not practical.
However, implementing a global "xid" for the kernel rpc is straightforward
and will ensure that an xid value is not reused for a long time. This
patch does that and is hoped it will fix the Netapp interoperability
problem.
PR: 245022
Reported by: danny@cs.huji.ac.il
MFC after: 2 weeks
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