This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: Fix WARN_ON due to unionization of nfs_inode.nrequests 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-fix-warn_on-due-to-unionization-of-nfs_inode.nrequests.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. >From 0ebeebcf59601bcfa0284f4bb7abdec051eb856d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:23:13 -0400 Subject: NFS: Fix WARN_ON due to unionization of nfs_inode.nrequests From: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0ebeebcf59601bcfa0284f4bb7abdec051eb856d upstream. Fixes the following WARN_ON WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 18678 at fs/nfs/inode.c:123 nfs_clear_inode+0x3b/0x50 [nfs] ... Call Trace: nfs4_evict_inode+0x57/0x70 [nfsv4] evict+0xd1/0x180 dispose_list+0x48/0x60 evict_inodes+0x156/0x190 generic_shutdown_super+0x37/0x110 nfs_kill_super+0x1d/0x40 [nfs] deactivate_locked_super+0x36/0xa0 Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/nfs_fs.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h @@ -593,7 +593,9 @@ bool nfs_commit_end(struct nfs_mds_commi static inline int nfs_have_writebacks(struct inode *inode) { - return atomic_long_read(&NFS_I(inode)->nrequests) != 0; + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + return atomic_long_read(&NFS_I(inode)->nrequests) != 0; + return 0; } /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/nfs-fix-warn_on-due-to-unionization-of-nfs_inode.nrequests.patch