This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pNFS/flexfiles: Check the result of nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect to the 4.11-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-flexfiles-check-the-result-of-nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 260f32adb88dadfaac29f47f761a088238ca164c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:33:06 -0400 Subject: pNFS/flexfiles: Check the result of nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 260f32adb88dadfaac29f47f761a088238ca164c upstream. The check in nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds() seems to be missing. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: a33e4b036d461 ("pNFS: return status from nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect") Cc: Weston Andros Adamson <dros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayoutdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayoutdev.c +++ b/fs/nfs/flexfilelayout/flexfilelayoutdev.c @@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ nfs4_ff_layout_prepare_ds(struct pnfs_la mirror->mirror_ds->ds_versions[0].minor_version); /* connect success, check rsize/wsize limit */ - if (ds->ds_clp) { + if (!status) { max_payload = nfs_block_size(rpc_max_payload(ds->ds_clp->cl_rpcclient), NULL); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/nfs-use-gfp_noio-for-two-allocations-in-writeback.patch queue-4.11/nfsv4-fix-an-rcu-lock-leak.patch queue-4.11/nfsv4-fix-a-hang-in-open-related-to-server-reboot.patch queue-4.11/nfsd-fix-up-the-supattr_exclcreat-attributes.patch queue-4.11/pnfs-flexfiles-check-the-result-of-nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect.patch queue-4.11/nfs-fix-use-after-free-in-write-error-path.patch