From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6e176d47160cec8bcaa28d9aa06926d72d54237c upstream. We mustn't call nfs_wb_all() on anything other than a regular file. Furthermore, we can exit early when we don't hold a delegation. Reported-by: David Wysochanski <dwysocha@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/delegation.c | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/delegation.c +++ b/fs/nfs/delegation.c @@ -755,11 +755,13 @@ int nfs4_inode_return_delegation(struct struct nfs_delegation *delegation; delegation = nfs_start_delegation_return(nfsi); - /* Synchronous recall of any application leases */ - break_lease(inode, O_WRONLY | O_RDWR); - nfs_wb_all(inode); - if (delegation != NULL) + if (delegation != NULL) { + /* Synchronous recall of any application leases */ + break_lease(inode, O_WRONLY | O_RDWR); + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + nfs_wb_all(inode); return nfs_end_delegation_return(inode, delegation, 1); + } return 0; }