The following request sequence to the same file causes the NFS client and server to get into an infinite loop with COMMIT and NFS4ERR_DELAY: OPEN REMOVE WRITE COMMIT Problem reported test recall11, recall12, recall14, recall20, recall22, recall40, recall42, recall48, recall50 of nfstest suite. This patch restores the handling of race condition in nfsd_file_do_acquire with unlink to that prior of the regression. Fixes: ac3a2585f018 ("nfsd: rework refcounting in filecache") Signed-off-by: Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index 6e8712bd7c99..63f7d9f4ea99 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -1170,9 +1170,7 @@ nfsd_file_do_acquire(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, * If construction failed, or we raced with a call to unlink() * then unhash. */ - if (status == nfs_ok && key.inode->i_nlink == 0) - status = nfserr_jukebox; - if (status != nfs_ok) + if (status != nfs_ok || key.inode->i_nlink == 0) nfsd_file_unhash(nf); clear_bit_unlock(NFSD_FILE_PENDING, &nf->nf_flags); smp_mb__after_atomic(); -- 2.9.5