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

nfs: don't wait on commit in nfs_commit_inode() if there were no commit requests

to the 4.14-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: nfs-don-t-wait-on-commit-in-nfs_commit_inode-if-there-were-no-commit-requests.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 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 dc4fd9ab01ab379ae5af522b3efd4187a7c30a31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Scott Mayhew smayhew@redhat.com Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 16:00:12 -0500 Subject: nfs: don't wait on commit in nfs_commit_inode() if there were no commit requests

From: Scott Mayhew smayhew@redhat.com

commit dc4fd9ab01ab379ae5af522b3efd4187a7c30a31 upstream.

If there were no commit requests, then nfs_commit_inode() should not wait on the commit or mark the inode dirty, otherwise the following BUG_ON can be triggered:

[ 1917.130762] kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:578! [ 1917.130766] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1] [ 1917.130768] SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries [ 1917.130772] Modules linked in: iscsi_tcp libiscsi_tcp libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi blocklayoutdriver rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc sg nx_crypto pseries_rng ip_tables xfs libcrc32c sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic crct10dif_common ibmvscsi scsi_transport_srp ibmveth scsi_tgt dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [ 1917.130805] CPU: 2 PID: 14923 Comm: umount.nfs4 Tainted: G ------------ T 3.10.0-768.el7.ppc64 #1 [ 1917.130810] task: c0000005ecd88040 ti: c00000004cea0000 task.ti: c00000004cea0000 [ 1917.130813] NIP: c000000000354178 LR: c000000000354160 CTR: c00000000012db80 [ 1917.130816] REGS: c00000004cea3720 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G ------------ T (3.10.0-768.el7.ppc64) [ 1917.130820] MSR: 8000000100029032 <SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI> CR: 22002822 XER: 20000000 [ 1917.130828] CFAR: c00000000011f594 SOFTE: 1 GPR00: c000000000354160 c00000004cea39a0 c0000000014c4700 c0000000018cc750 GPR04: 000000000000c750 80c0000000000000 0600000000000000 04eeb76bea749a03 GPR08: 0000000000000034 c0000000018cc758 0000000000000001 d000000005e619e8 GPR12: c00000000012db80 c000000007b31200 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR20: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 GPR24: 0000000000000000 c000000000dfc3ec 0000000000000000 c0000005eefc02c0 GPR28: d0000000079dbd50 c0000005b94a02c0 c0000005b94a0250 c0000005b94a01c8 [ 1917.130867] NIP [c000000000354178] .evict+0x1c8/0x350 [ 1917.130871] LR [c000000000354160] .evict+0x1b0/0x350 [ 1917.130873] Call Trace: [ 1917.130876] [c00000004cea39a0] [c000000000354160] .evict+0x1b0/0x350 (unreliable) [ 1917.130880] [c00000004cea3a30] [c0000000003558cc] .evict_inodes+0x13c/0x270 [ 1917.130884] [c00000004cea3af0] [c000000000327d20] .kill_anon_super+0x70/0x1e0 [ 1917.130896] [c00000004cea3b80] [d000000005e43e30] .nfs_kill_super+0x20/0x60 [nfs] [ 1917.130900] [c00000004cea3c00] [c000000000328a20] .deactivate_locked_super+0xa0/0x1b0 [ 1917.130903] [c00000004cea3c80] [c00000000035ba54] .cleanup_mnt+0xd4/0x180 [ 1917.130907] [c00000004cea3d10] [c000000000119034] .task_work_run+0x114/0x150 [ 1917.130912] [c00000004cea3db0] [c00000000001ba6c] .do_notify_resume+0xcc/0x100 [ 1917.130916] [c00000004cea3e30] [c00000000000a7b0] .ret_from_except_lite+0x5c/0x60 [ 1917.130919] Instruction dump: [ 1917.130921] 7fc3f378 486734b5 60000000 387f00a0 38800003 4bdcb365 60000000 e95f00a0 [ 1917.130927] 694a0060 7d4a0074 794ad182 694a0001 <0b0a0000> 892d02a4 2f890000 40de0134

Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew smayhew@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- fs/nfs/write.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/nfs/write.c +++ b/fs/nfs/write.c @@ -1889,6 +1889,8 @@ int nfs_commit_inode(struct inode *inode if (res) error = nfs_generic_commit_list(inode, &head, how, &cinfo); nfs_commit_end(cinfo.mds); + if (res == 0) + return res; if (error < 0) goto out_error; if (!may_wait)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from smayhew@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/nfs-don-t-wait-on-commit-in-nfs_commit_inode-if-there-were-no-commit-requests.patch