This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pNFS: The client must not do I/O to the DS if it's lease has expired to the 4.7-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: pnfs-the-client-must-not-do-i-o-to-the-ds-if-it-s-lease-has-expired.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b88fa69eaa8649f11828158c7b65c4bcd886ebd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:19:33 -0400 Subject: pNFS: The client must not do I/O to the DS if it's lease has expired From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit b88fa69eaa8649f11828158c7b65c4bcd886ebd5 upstream. Ensure that the client conforms to the normative behaviour described in RFC5661 Section 12.7.2: "If a client believes its lease has expired, it MUST NOT send I/O to the storage device until it has validated its lease." So ensure that we wait for the lease to be validated before using the layout. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c @@ -1527,6 +1527,7 @@ pnfs_update_layout(struct inode *ino, } lookup_again: + nfs4_client_recover_expired_lease(clp); first = false; spin_lock(&ino->i_lock); lo = pnfs_find_alloc_layout(ino, ctx, gfp_flags); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/nfsv4.1-fix-oopsable-condition-in-server-callback-races.patch queue-4.7/pnfs-ensure-layoutget-and-layoutreturn-are-properly-serialised.patch queue-4.7/nfsv4.x-fix-a-refcount-leak-in-nfs_callback_up_net.patch queue-4.7/pnfs-flexfiles-fix-an-oopsable-condition-when-connection-to-the-ds-fails.patch queue-4.7/nfsv4.1-fix-the-create_session-slot-number-accounting.patch queue-4.7/pnfs-the-client-must-not-do-i-o-to-the-ds-if-it-s-lease-has-expired.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