Given that we do the search and insertion while holding the i_lock, I don't think it's possible for us to get EEXIST here. Remove this case. Cc: Youzhong Yang <youzhong@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: c6593366c0bf ("nfsd: don't kill nfsd_files because of lease break error") Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- This is replacement for PATCH 1/3 in the series I sent yesterday. I think it makes sense to just eliminate this case. --- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index f84913691b78..b9dc7c22242c 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -1038,8 +1038,6 @@ nfsd_file_do_acquire(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, if (likely(ret == 0)) goto open_file; - if (ret == -EEXIST) - goto retry; trace_nfsd_file_insert_err(rqstp, inode, may_flags, ret); status = nfserr_jukebox; goto construction_err; --- base-commit: ec1772c39fa8dd85340b1a02040806377ffbff27 change-id: 20240711-nfsd-next-c9d17f66e2bd Best regards, -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>