This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dlm: fix no ack after final message to the 6.6-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: dlm-fix-no-ack-after-final-message.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 0643c9ea61d1ce7211cb55ebe82b89dfbdb507b3 Author: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 10 18:04:47 2023 -0400 dlm: fix no ack after final message [ Upstream commit 6212e4528b248a4bc9b4fe68e029a84689c67461 ] In case of an final DLM message we can't should not send an ack out after the final message. This patch moves the ack message before the messages will be transmitted. If it's the final message and the receiving node turns into DLM_CLOSED state another ack messages will being received and turning the receiving node into DLM_ESTABLISHED again. Fixes: 1696c75f1864 ("fs: dlm: add send ack threshold and append acks to msgs") Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Teigland <teigland@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/dlm/midcomms.c b/fs/dlm/midcomms.c index 6bc8d7f89b2cc..2247ebb61be1e 100644 --- a/fs/dlm/midcomms.c +++ b/fs/dlm/midcomms.c @@ -1038,15 +1038,15 @@ struct dlm_mhandle *dlm_midcomms_get_mhandle(int nodeid, int len, break; case DLM_VERSION_3_2: + /* send ack back if necessary */ + dlm_send_ack_threshold(node, DLM_SEND_ACK_BACK_MSG_THRESHOLD); + msg = dlm_midcomms_get_msg_3_2(mh, nodeid, len, allocation, ppc); if (!msg) { dlm_free_mhandle(mh); goto err; } - - /* send ack back if necessary */ - dlm_send_ack_threshold(node, DLM_SEND_ACK_BACK_MSG_THRESHOLD); break; default: dlm_free_mhandle(mh);