We can't allow delegreturn to hold up nfs4_evict_inode() forever, since that can cause the memory shrinkers to block. This patch therefore ensures that we eventually time out, and complete the reclaim of the inode. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 6616a575711e..00fe674c8a49 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -6259,6 +6259,7 @@ static void nfs4_delegreturn_done(struct rpc_task *task, void *calldata) /* Fallthrough */ case -NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID: case -NFS4ERR_STALE_STATEID: + case -ETIMEDOUT: task->tk_status = 0; break; case -NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID: @@ -6349,7 +6350,7 @@ static int _nfs4_proc_delegreturn(struct inode *inode, const struct cred *cred, .rpc_client = server->client, .rpc_message = &msg, .callback_ops = &nfs4_delegreturn_ops, - .flags = RPC_TASK_ASYNC, + .flags = RPC_TASK_ASYNC | RPC_TASK_TIMEOUT, }; int status = 0; -- 2.24.1