This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSD: Fix problem of COMMIT and NFS4ERR_DELAY in infinite loop 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: nfsd-fix-problem-of-commit-and-nfs4err_delay-in-infi.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. commit 2444264cf44b99db8e3acfc9180967295b91b564 Author: Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 19 10:53:18 2023 -0700 NFSD: Fix problem of COMMIT and NFS4ERR_DELAY in infinite loop [ Upstream commit 147abcacee33781e75588869e944ddb07528a897 ] The following request sequence to the same file causes the NFS client and server getting into an infinite loop with COMMIT and NFS4ERR_DELAY: OPEN REMOVE WRITE COMMIT Problem reported by recall11, recall12, recall14, recall20, recall22, recall40, recall42, recall48, recall50 of nfstest suite. This patch restores the handling of race condition in nfsd_file_do_acquire with unlink to that prior of the regression. Fixes: ac3a2585f018 ("nfsd: rework refcounting in filecache") Signed-off-by: Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index 6b8706f23eaf0..615ea8324911e 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -1098,8 +1098,6 @@ nfsd_file_do_acquire(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, * then unhash. */ if (status != nfs_ok || inode->i_nlink == 0) - status = nfserr_jukebox; - if (status != nfs_ok) nfsd_file_unhash(nf); clear_and_wake_up_bit(NFSD_FILE_PENDING, &nf->nf_flags); if (status == nfs_ok)