cifs: Instability and outages when SMB v3 is enabled

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Host rebooted mid-day when 1200 users were connected. Customer is concerned, and wants to know why this happened, and how to keep it from happening.

Environment

  • Red hat Enterprise Linux
    • kernel-3.10.0-957.10.1.el7
  • Cifs
    • SMB v3
  • NetApp file server

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