[openib-general] [PATCH] 2.6.20 ib_cm: limit cm message timeouts

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Limit the timeout that the ib_cm will wait to receive a response to
> a message, to avoid excessively large (on the order of hours) timeout
> values.  This prevents consuming resources tracking requests for
> extended periods of time.
> 
> This helps correct for a bug in the SRP Engenio target sending a large
> value (> 1 hour) as a service timeout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>

A very similiar code is in OFED 1.1 (we chickened out and had a module parameter
to disable this just in case, but I don't think its really needed upstream).

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>

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MST