From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit c812012f9ca7cf89c9e1a1cd512e6c3b5be04b85 upstream. If we pass in an empty nfs_fattr struct to nfs_update_inode, it will (correctly) not update any of the attributes, but it then clears the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR flag, which indicates that the attributes are up to date. Don't clear the flag if the fattr struct has no valid attrs to apply. Reviewed-by: Steve French <steve.french@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index 127a6d9d81b7..6f5457245a75 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -1668,7 +1668,11 @@ static int nfs_update_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fattr) nfsi->attrtimeo_timestamp = now; } } - invalid &= ~NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR; + + /* Don't declare attrcache up to date if there were no attrs! */ + if (fattr->valid != 0) + invalid &= ~NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR; + /* Don't invalidate the data if we were to blame */ if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) -- 2.6.4 -- 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