On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 01:40:59PM -0400, Olga Kornievskaia wrote: > + c_in = (NFS_SERVER(file_inode(file_in)))->nfs_client; Seems to be an unnecessary pair of brackets there, given existing code: fs/nfs/delegation.c: struct nfs_client *clp = NFS_SERVER(inode)->nfs_client; fs/nfs/dir.c: NFS_SERVER(inode)->dtsize, desc->plus); fs/nfs/file.c: if (NFS_SERVER(inode)->flags & NFS_MOUNT_LOCAL_FCNTL) (etc) > + if (c_in->cl_minorversion < 2) in fact, can't you make this even simpler ... if (NFS_SERVER(inode)->nfs_client->cl_minorversion < 2) I thought you needed to cast it, but code like this: fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: NFS_SERVER(dir)->nfs_client->cl_hostname); would indicate not.