This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd4: permit layoutget of executable-only files to the 4.9-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: nfsd4-permit-layoutget-of-executable-only-files.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 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 Thu Mar 22 14:40:24 CET 2018 From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:35:25 -0500 Subject: nfsd4: permit layoutget of executable-only files From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 66282ec1cf004c09083c29cb5e49019037937bbd ] Clients must be able to read a file in order to execute it, and for pNFS that means the client needs to be able to perform a LAYOUTGET on the file. This behavior for executable-only files was added for OPEN in commit a043226bc140 "nfsd4: permit read opens of executable-only files". This fixes up xfstests generic/126 on block/scsi layouts. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c @@ -1338,14 +1338,14 @@ nfsd4_layoutget(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, const struct nfsd4_layout_ops *ops; struct nfs4_layout_stateid *ls; __be32 nfserr; - int accmode; + int accmode = NFSD_MAY_READ_IF_EXEC; switch (lgp->lg_seg.iomode) { case IOMODE_READ: - accmode = NFSD_MAY_READ; + accmode |= NFSD_MAY_READ; break; case IOMODE_RW: - accmode = NFSD_MAY_READ | NFSD_MAY_WRITE; + accmode |= NFSD_MAY_READ | NFSD_MAY_WRITE; break; default: dprintk("%s: invalid iomode %d\n", Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/nfsd4-permit-layoutget-of-executable-only-files.patch queue-4.9/nfs-fix-missing-pg_cleanup-after-nfs_pageio_cond_complete.patch