This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: commit direct writes even if they fail partially to the 4.4-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-commit-direct-writes-even-if-they-fail-partially.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1b8d97b0a837beaf48a8449955b52c650a7114b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 10:08:00 -0500 Subject: NFS: commit direct writes even if they fail partially From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 1b8d97b0a837beaf48a8449955b52c650a7114b4 upstream. If some of the WRITE calls making up an O_DIRECT write syscall fail, we neglect to commit, even if some of the WRITEs succeed. We also depend on the commit code to free the reference count on the nfs_page taken in the "if (request_commit)" case at the end of nfs_direct_write_completion(). The problem was originally noticed because ENOSPC's encountered partway through a write would result in a closed file being sillyrenamed when it should have been unlinked. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/direct.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/direct.c +++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c @@ -787,10 +787,8 @@ static void nfs_direct_write_completion( spin_lock(&dreq->lock); - if (test_bit(NFS_IOHDR_ERROR, &hdr->flags)) { - dreq->flags = 0; + if (test_bit(NFS_IOHDR_ERROR, &hdr->flags)) dreq->error = hdr->error; - } if (dreq->error == 0) { nfs_direct_good_bytes(dreq, hdr); if (nfs_write_need_commit(hdr)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bfields@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/nfs-commit-direct-writes-even-if-they-fail-partially.patch