From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The original premise in commit 83672d392f7b ("NFS: Fix directory caching problem - with test case and patch.") was that readdirplus was caching attribute information and replaying it later. This is no longer the case. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 3fafecdb2070..210c5945ac2b 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1727,10 +1727,6 @@ static void nfs_drop_nlink(struct inode *inode) */ static void nfs_dentry_iput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode) { - if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) - /* drop any readdir cache as it could easily be old */ - nfs_set_cache_invalid(inode, NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA); - if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED) { nfs_complete_unlink(dentry, inode); nfs_drop_nlink(inode); -- 2.31.1