Chuck Lever 823c73d0c5 SUNRPC: Unset RPC_TASK_NO_RETRANS_TIMEOUT for NULL RPCs
In some rare failure modes, the server is actually reading the
transport, but then just dropping the requests on the floor.
TCP_USER_TIMEOUT cannot detect that case.

Prevent such a stuck server from pinning client resources
indefinitely by ensuring that certain idempotent requests
(such as NULL) can time out even if the connection is still
operational.

Otherwise rpc_bind_new_program(), gss_destroy_cred(), or
rpc_clnt_test_and_add_xprt() can wait forever.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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