This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd4: kill warnings on testing stateids with mismatched clientids to the 5.4-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: nfsd4-kill-warnings-on-testing-stateids-with-mismatc.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 1457df2d056bad673aeaa09b99fe93da98d43414 Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Mar 19 10:18:49 2020 -0400 nfsd4: kill warnings on testing stateids with mismatched clientids [ Upstream commit 663e36f07666ff924012defa521f88875f6e5402 ] It's normal for a client to test a stateid from a previous instance, e.g. after a network partition. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: f75546f58a70 ("nfsd: Remove incorrect check in nfsd4_validate_stateid") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index 5922eceb01762..ecdf83c723f42 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -5513,15 +5513,8 @@ static __be32 nfsd4_validate_stateid(struct nfs4_client *cl, stateid_t *stateid) if (ZERO_STATEID(stateid) || ONE_STATEID(stateid) || CLOSE_STATEID(stateid)) return status; - /* Client debugging aid. */ - if (!same_clid(&stateid->si_opaque.so_clid, &cl->cl_clientid)) { - char addr_str[INET6_ADDRSTRLEN]; - rpc_ntop((struct sockaddr *)&cl->cl_addr, addr_str, - sizeof(addr_str)); - pr_warn_ratelimited("NFSD: client %s testing state ID " - "with incorrect client ID\n", addr_str); + if (!same_clid(&stateid->si_opaque.so_clid, &cl->cl_clientid)) return status; - } spin_lock(&cl->cl_lock); s = find_stateid_locked(cl, stateid); if (!s)