4.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> commit 8c3ad9cb7343dc5f61b8cf3cdbe1016c5e7c2c8b upstream. Recent Linux clients have started to send GETLAYOUT requests with minlength less than blocksize. Servers aren't really allowed to impose this kind of restriction on layouts; see RFC 5661 section 18.43.3 for details. This has been observed to cause indefinite hangs on fsx runs on some clients. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c @@ -56,14 +56,6 @@ nfsd4_block_proc_layoutget(struct inode u32 device_generation = 0; int error; - /* - * We do not attempt to support I/O smaller than the fs block size, - * or not aligned to it. - */ - if (args->lg_minlength < block_size) { - dprintk("pnfsd: I/O too small\n"); - goto out_layoutunavailable; - } if (seg->offset & (block_size - 1)) { dprintk("pnfsd: I/O misaligned\n"); goto out_layoutunavailable; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html