smb: client: fix cifs_pick_channel when channels are equally loaded

commit 663c28469d upstream.

cifs_pick_channel uses (start % chan_count) when channels are equally
loaded, but that can return a channel that failed the eligibility
checks.

Drop the fallback and return the scan-selected channel instead. If none
is eligible, keep the existing behavior of using the primary channel.

Signed-off-by: Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>
Acked-by: Paulo Alcantara (Red Hat) <pc@manguebit.org>
Acked-by: Meetakshi Setiya <msetiya@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Henrique Carvalho 2026-02-21 01:59:44 -03:00 • committed by Sasha Levin
commit 0786f9422c