From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 58bbeab425c6c5e318f5b6ae31d351331ddfb34b upstream. If the client has to stop in pnfs_update_layout() to wait for another layoutget to complete, it currently exits and defaults to I/O through the MDS if the layoutget was successful. Fixes: d03360aaf5cc ("pNFS: Ensure we return the error if someone kills...") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.20+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/pnfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c @@ -1890,7 +1890,7 @@ lookup_again: spin_unlock(&ino->i_lock); lseg = ERR_PTR(wait_var_event_killable(&lo->plh_outstanding, !atomic_read(&lo->plh_outstanding))); - if (IS_ERR(lseg) || !list_empty(&lo->plh_segs)) + if (IS_ERR(lseg)) goto out_put_layout_hdr; pnfs_put_layout_hdr(lo); goto lookup_again;