This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4.2: fix handling of COPY ERR_OFFLOAD_NO_REQ to the 6.5-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: nfsv4.2-fix-handling-of-copy-err_offload_no_req.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 74c3ec68f082c68fd7d7aa40602d8c0bc499879b Author: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 24 16:43:53 2023 -0400 NFSv4.2: fix handling of COPY ERR_OFFLOAD_NO_REQ [ Upstream commit 5690eed941ab7e33c3c3d6b850100cabf740f075 ] If the client sent a synchronous copy and the server replied with ERR_OFFLOAD_NO_REQ indicating that it wants an asynchronous copy instead, the client should retry with asynchronous copy. Fixes: 539f57b3e0fd ("NFS handle COPY ERR_OFFLOAD_NO_REQS") Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c index 49f78e23b34c0..063e00aff87ed 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs42proc.c @@ -471,8 +471,9 @@ ssize_t nfs42_proc_copy(struct file *src, loff_t pos_src, continue; } break; - } else if (err == -NFS4ERR_OFFLOAD_NO_REQS && !args.sync) { - args.sync = true; + } else if (err == -NFS4ERR_OFFLOAD_NO_REQS && + args.sync != res.synchronous) { + args.sync = res.synchronous; dst_exception.retry = 1; continue; } else if ((err == -ESTALE ||