This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Don't gratuitously clear the inode cache when lookup failed to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfs-don-t-gratuitously-clear-the-inode-cache-when-lo.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 360fe16622f795dbe08c1e33f8de306cd85f2f5a Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Mar 8 14:42:52 2021 -0500 NFS: Don't gratuitously clear the inode cache when lookup failed [ Upstream commit 47397915ede0192235474b145ebcd81b37b03624 ] The fact that the lookup revalidation failed, does not mean that the inode contents have changed. Fixes: 5ceb9d7fdaaf ("NFS: Refactor nfs_lookup_revalidate()") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 7bcc6fcf1096..4db3018776f6 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1444,18 +1444,14 @@ nfs_lookup_revalidate_done(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, __func__, dentry); return 1; case 0: - if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { - /* Purge readdir caches. */ - nfs_zap_caches(inode); - /* - * We can't d_drop the root of a disconnected tree: - * its d_hash is on the s_anon list and d_drop() would hide - * it from shrink_dcache_for_unmount(), leading to busy - * inodes on unmount and further oopses. - */ - if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) - return 1; - } + /* + * We can't d_drop the root of a disconnected tree: + * its d_hash is on the s_anon list and d_drop() would hide + * it from shrink_dcache_for_unmount(), leading to busy + * inodes on unmount and further oopses. + */ + if (inode && IS_ROOT(dentry)) + return 1; dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s(%pd2) is invalid\n", __func__, dentry); return 0;