If the server fails to return the attributes as part of an OPEN reply, and then reboots, we can end up hanging. The reason is that the client attempts to send a GETATTR in order to pick up the missing OPEN call, but fails to release the slot first, causing reboot recovery to deadlock. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 2e80dbe7ac51a ("NFSv4.1: Close callback races for OPEN, LAYOUTGET...") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.8+ --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 4e52ac773d1f..6e9ff2d9a5bf 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -2300,8 +2300,10 @@ static int _nfs4_proc_open(struct nfs4_opendata *data) if (status != 0) return status; } - if (!(o_res->f_attr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR)) + if (!(o_res->f_attr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR)) { + nfs4_sequence_free_slot(&o_res->seq_res); nfs4_proc_getattr(server, &o_res->fh, o_res->f_attr, o_res->f_label); + } return 0; } -- 2.9.3 -- 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