This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfs: don't create zero-length requests to the 3.14-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: nfs-don-t-create-zero-length-requests.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 149a4fddd0a72d526abbeac0c8deaab03559836a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:41:57 -0400 Subject: nfs: don't create zero-length requests From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 149a4fddd0a72d526abbeac0c8deaab03559836a upstream. NFS doesn't expect requests with wb_bytes set to zero and may make unexpected decisions about how to handle that request at the page IO layer. Skip request creation if we won't have any wb_bytes in the request. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/write.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -965,6 +965,9 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st dprintk("NFS: nfs_updatepage(%pD2 %d@%lld)\n", file, count, (long long)(page_file_offset(page) + offset)); + if (!count) + goto out; + if (nfs_can_extend_write(file, page, inode)) { count = max(count + offset, nfs_page_length(page)); offset = 0; @@ -975,7 +978,7 @@ int nfs_updatepage(struct file *file, st nfs_set_pageerror(page); else __set_page_dirty_nobuffers(page); - +out: dprintk("NFS: nfs_updatepage returns %d (isize %lld)\n", status, (long long)i_size_read(inode)); return status; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/nfs-don-t-create-zero-length-requests.patch -- 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