This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFSv4.1 respect server's max size in CREATE_SESSION to the 3.18-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: nfsv4.1-respect-server-s-max-size-in-create_session.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 15:03:25 CET 2017 From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 14:39:15 -0500 Subject: NFSv4.1 respect server's max size in CREATE_SESSION From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 033853325fe3bdc70819a8b97915bd3bca41d3af ] Currently client doesn't respect max sizes server returns in CREATE_SESSION. nfs4_session_set_rwsize() gets called and server->rsize, server->wsize are 0 so they never get set to the sizes returned by the server. Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c @@ -894,9 +894,9 @@ static void nfs4_session_set_rwsize(stru server_resp_sz = sess->fc_attrs.max_resp_sz - nfs41_maxread_overhead; server_rqst_sz = sess->fc_attrs.max_rqst_sz - nfs41_maxwrite_overhead; - if (server->rsize > server_resp_sz) + if (!server->rsize || server->rsize > server_resp_sz) server->rsize = server_resp_sz; - if (server->wsize > server_rqst_sz) + if (!server->wsize || server->wsize > server_rqst_sz) server->wsize = server_rqst_sz; #endif /* CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 */ } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kolga@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/nfsv4.1-respect-server-s-max-size-in-create_session.patch