There should be no need to invalidate a perfectly good state owner just because of a stale filehandle. Doing so can cause the state recovery code to break, since nfs4_get_renew_cred() and nfs4_get_setclientid_cred() rely on finding active state owners. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 5 +---- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index f38d057..424aa20 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -982,11 +982,8 @@ static int _nfs4_open_expired(struct nfs_open_context *ctx, struct nfs4_state *s if (IS_ERR(opendata)) return PTR_ERR(opendata); ret = nfs4_open_recover(opendata, state); - if (ret == -ESTALE) { - /* Invalidate the state owner so we don't ever use it again */ - nfs4_drop_state_owner(state->owner); + if (ret == -ESTALE) d_drop(ctx->path.dentry); - } nfs4_opendata_put(opendata); return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html