From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> 3.4.112-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ commit efcbc04e16dfa95fef76309f89710dd1d99a5453 upstream. It is unusual to combine the open flags O_RDONLY and O_EXCL, but it appears that libre-office does just that. [pid 3250] stat("/home/USER/.config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0 [pid 3250] open("/home/USER/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/user/extensions/buildid", O_RDONLY|O_EXCL <unfinished ...> NFSv4 takes O_EXCL as a sign that a setattr command should be sent, probably to reset the timestamps. When it was an O_RDONLY open, the SETATTR command does not identify any actual attributes to change. If no delegation was provided to the open, the SETATTR uses the all-zeros stateid and the request is accepted (at least by the Linux NFS server - no harm, no foul). If a read-delegation was provided, this is used in the SETATTR request, and a Netapp filer will justifiably claim NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID, which the Linux client takes as a sign to retry - indefinitely. So only treat O_EXCL specially if O_CREAT was also given. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [lizf: Backported to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 3d344ab..92eff4d 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -1851,7 +1851,7 @@ static int _nfs4_do_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, fmode_t fmode if (server->caps & NFS_CAP_POSIX_LOCK) set_bit(NFS_STATE_POSIX_LOCKS, &state->flags); - if (opendata->o_arg.open_flags & O_EXCL) { + if ((opendata->o_arg.open_flags & (O_CREAT|O_EXCL)) == (O_CREAT|O_EXCL)) { nfs4_exclusive_attrset(opendata, sattr); nfs_fattr_init(opendata->o_res.f_attr); -- 1.9.1 -- 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