It's possible for the VFS to completely forget about an inode, but for it to still be sitting on the cap release queue. If the MDS sends the client a cap message for such an inode, it just ignores it today, which can lead to a stall of up to 5s until the cap release queue is flushed. If we get a cap message for an inode that can't be located, then go ahead and flush the cap release queue. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 1e9c2eb6811e ("ceph: delete stale dentry when last reference is dropped") Reported-by: Andrej Filipčič <andrej.filipcic@xxxxxx> Fix-suggested-by: Yan, Zheng <zyan@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/caps.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c index 27c2e60f33dc..41eb999dadf0 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/caps.c +++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c @@ -4070,7 +4070,7 @@ void ceph_handle_caps(struct ceph_mds_session *session, __ceph_queue_cap_release(session, cap); spin_unlock(&session->s_cap_lock); } - goto done; + goto flush_cap_releases; } /* these will work even if we don't have a cap yet */ -- 2.26.2