This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4/pNFS: Do not fail I/O when we fail to allocate the pNFS layout to the 5.18-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: nfsv4-pnfs-do-not-fail-i-o-when-we-fail-to-allocate-.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 79fb216ef405e40c36de85f2912c3d5cd504d90f Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat May 14 10:08:11 2022 -0400 NFSv4/pNFS: Do not fail I/O when we fail to allocate the pNFS layout [ Upstream commit 3764a17e31d579cf9b4bd0a69894b577e8d75702 ] Commit 587f03deb69b caused pnfs_update_layout() to stop returning ENOMEM when the memory allocation fails, and hence causes it to fall back to trying to do I/O through the MDS. There is no guarantee that this will fare any better. If we're failing the pNFS layout allocation, then we should just redirty the page and retry later. Reported-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 587f03deb69b ("pnfs: refactor send_layoutget") 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/pnfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c index 856c962273c7..68a87be3e6f9 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c @@ -2000,6 +2000,7 @@ pnfs_update_layout(struct inode *ino, lo = pnfs_find_alloc_layout(ino, ctx, gfp_flags); if (lo == NULL) { spin_unlock(&ino->i_lock); + lseg = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); trace_pnfs_update_layout(ino, pos, count, iomode, lo, lseg, PNFS_UPDATE_LAYOUT_NOMEM); goto out; @@ -2128,6 +2129,7 @@ pnfs_update_layout(struct inode *ino, lgp = pnfs_alloc_init_layoutget_args(ino, ctx, &stateid, &arg, gfp_flags); if (!lgp) { + lseg = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); trace_pnfs_update_layout(ino, pos, count, iomode, lo, NULL, PNFS_UPDATE_LAYOUT_NOMEM); nfs_layoutget_end(lo);