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[3.19.y-ckt,stable] Patch "fixing infinite OPEN loop in 4.0 stateid recovery" has been added to staging queue

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Kamal Mostafa July 16, 2015, 1 a.m. UTC
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    fixing infinite OPEN loop in 4.0 stateid recovery

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.y-ckt4.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From 7cfc82937f8e43a81b0d373c93232e04434d1ddf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:45:31 -0400
Subject: fixing infinite OPEN loop in 4.0 stateid recovery

commit e8d975e73e5fa05f983fbf2723120edcf68e0b38 upstream.

Problem: When an operation like WRITE receives a BAD_STATEID, even though
recovery code clears the RECLAIM_NOGRACE recovery flag before recovering
the open state, because of clearing delegation state for the associated
inode, nfs_inode_find_state_and_recover() gets called and it makes the
same state with RECLAIM_NOGRACE flag again. As a results, when we restart
looking over the open states, we end up in the infinite loop instead of
breaking out in the next test of state flags.

Solution: unset the RECLAIM_NOGRACE set because of
calling of nfs_inode_find_state_and_recover() after returning from calling
recover_open() function.

Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

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diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index 5194933..1f9d57a 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -1455,6 +1455,8 @@  restart:
 					spin_unlock(&state->state_lock);
 				}
 				nfs4_put_open_state(state);
+				clear_bit(NFS4CLNT_RECLAIM_NOGRACE,
+					&state->flags);
 				spin_lock(&sp->so_lock);
 				goto restart;
 			}