From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b1029c9bc078a6f1515f55dd993b507dcc7e3440 upstream. If we fail to find a good deviceid while trying to pnfs instead of propogating an error back fallback to doing IO to the MDS. Currently, code with fals the IO with EINVAL. Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 8d40b0f14846f ("NFS filelayout:call GETDEVICEINFO after pnfs_layout_process completes" Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.11+ Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c +++ b/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c @@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ fl_pnfs_update_layout(struct inode *ino, status = filelayout_check_deviceid(lo, fl, gfp_flags); if (status) { pnfs_put_lseg(lseg); - lseg = ERR_PTR(status); + lseg = NULL; } out: return lseg;