This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Ignore the directory size when marking for revalidation to the 5.15-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-ignore-the-directory-size-when-marking-for-reval.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6c5cd8f19f4092c8766563e9c393bb0bba4062fe Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Sep 28 11:24:57 2021 -0400 NFS: Ignore the directory size when marking for revalidation [ Upstream commit a6a361c4ca3cc3e6f3b39d1b6bca1de90f5f4b11 ] If we want to revalidate the directory, then just mark the change attribute as invalid. Fixes: 13c0b082b6a9 ("NFS: Replace use of NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE when checking cache validity") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 1a6d2867fba4f..085b8ecdc17d9 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1413,7 +1413,7 @@ out_force: static void nfs_mark_dir_for_revalidate(struct inode *inode) { spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); - nfs_set_cache_invalid(inode, NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE); + nfs_set_cache_invalid(inode, NFS_INO_INVALID_CHANGE); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); }