This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

nfs41: do not return ENOMEM on LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: nfs41-do-not-return-enomem-on-layoutunavailable.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 7ff4cff637aa0bd2abbd81f53b2a6206c50afd95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Tigran Mkrtchyan tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:38:50 +0100 Subject: nfs41: do not return ENOMEM on LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE

From: Tigran Mkrtchyan tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de

commit 7ff4cff637aa0bd2abbd81f53b2a6206c50afd95 upstream.

A pNFS server may return LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE error on LAYOUTGET for files which don't have any layout. In this situation pnfs_update_layout currently returns NULL. As this NULL is converted into ENOMEM, IO requests fails instead of falling back to MDS.

Do not return ENOMEM on LAYOUTUNAVAILABLE and let client retry through MDS.

Fixes 8d40b0f14846f. I will suggest to backport this fix to affected stable branches.

Signed-off-by: Tigran Mkrtchyan tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de [trondmy: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL()] Fixes: 8d40b0f14846 ("NFS filelayout:call GETDEVICEINFO after...") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust trond.myklebust@primarydata.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c +++ b/fs/nfs/filelayout/filelayout.c @@ -895,9 +895,7 @@ fl_pnfs_update_layout(struct inode *ino,

lseg = pnfs_update_layout(ino, ctx, pos, count, iomode, strict_iomode, gfp_flags); - if (!lseg) - lseg = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); - if (IS_ERR(lseg)) + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(lseg)) goto out;

lo = NFS_I(ino)->layout;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tigran.mkrtchyan@desy.de are

queue-4.15/nfs41-do-not-return-enomem-on-layoutunavailable.patch