This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd4: remove obselete comment to the 5.10-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-remove-obselete-comment.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 9e534830d6e7713f44e659708d420beade82f038 Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Oct 26 12:56:55 2021 -0400 nfsd4: remove obselete comment [ Upstream commit 80479eb862102f9513e93fcf726c78cc0be2e3b2 ] Mandatory locking has been removed. And the rest of this comment is redundant with the code. Reported-by: Jeff layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c index 5b0abdf8de27e..deaf4a50550d5 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c @@ -751,9 +751,6 @@ __nfsd_open(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, umode_t type, path.dentry = fhp->fh_dentry; inode = d_inode(path.dentry); - /* Disallow write access to files with the append-only bit set - * or any access when mandatory locking enabled - */ err = nfserr_perm; if (IS_APPEND(inode) && (may_flags & NFSD_MAY_WRITE)) goto out;