kernel/linux.git/fs/nfs/write.c, branch v7.1-rc5

Merge tag 'nfs-for-7.1-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

2026-04-24T21:20:03+00:00

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Bugfixes: - Fix handling of ENOSPC so that if we have to resend writes, they are written synchronously - SUNRPC RDMA transport fixes from Chuck - Several fixes for delegated timestamps in NFSv4.2 - Failure to obtain a directory delegation should not cause stat() to fail with NFSv4 - Rename was failing to update timestamps when a directory delegation is held on NFSv4 - Ensure we check rsize/wsize after crossing a NFSv4 filesystem boundary - NFSv4/pnfs: - If the server is down, retry the layout returns on reboot - Fallback to MDS could result in a short write being incorrectly logged Cleanups: - Use memcpy_and_pad in decode_fh" * tag 'nfs-for-7.1-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (21 commits) NFS: Fix RCU dereference of cl_xprt in nfs_compare_super_address NFS: remove redundant __private attribute from nfs_page_class NFSv4.2: fix CLONE/COPY attrs in presence of delegated attributes NFS: fix writeback in presence of errors nfs: use memcpy_and_pad in decode_fh NFSv4.1: Apply session size limits on clone path NFSv4: retry GETATTR if GET_DIR_DELEGATION failed NFS: fix RENAME attr in presence of directory delegations pnfs/flexfiles: validate ds_versions_cnt is non-zero NFS/blocklayout: print each device used for SCSI layouts xprtrdma: Post receive buffers after RPC completion xprtrdma: Scale receive batch size with credit window xprtrdma: Replace rpcrdma_mr_seg with xdr_buf cursor xprtrdma: Decouple frwr_wp_create from frwr_map xprtrdma: Close lost-wakeup race in xprt_rdma_alloc_slot xprtrdma: Avoid 250 ms delay on backlog wakeup xprtrdma: Close sendctx get/put race that can block a transport nfs: update inode ctime after removexattr operation nfs: fix utimensat() for atime with delegated timestamps NFS: improve "Server wrote zero bytes" error ...

NFS: fix writeback in presence of errors

2026-04-22T12:53:23+00:00

After running xfstest generic/751, in certain conditions, can have a writeback IO stuck while experiencing one of the two patterns. Pattern#1: writeback IO experiences ENOSPC on an offset smaller than the filesize. Example, write offset=0 len=4096 how=unstable OK write offset=8192 len=4096 how=unstable OK write offset=12288 len=4096 how=unstable ENOSPC write offset=4096 len=4096 how=unstable ENOSPC client sends a commit and receives a verifier which is different from the last successful write. It marks pages dirty and writeback retries. But it again send writes unstable and gets into the same pattern, running into the ENOSPC error and sending a commit because writes were sent at unstable. Pattern#2: an unstable write followed by a short write and ENOSPC. write offset=0 len=4096 how=unstable OK write offset=4096 len=4096 how=unstable returns OK but count=100 write offset=4197 len=3996 how=stable returns ENOSPC client send a commit and receives a verifier different from the last unstable write. The same behaviour is retried in a loop. Instead, this patch proposes to identify those conditions and mark requests to be done synchronously instead. Previous solution tried to mark it in the nfs_page, however that's not persistent thus instead mark it in the nfs_open_context. Furthermore, the same problem occurs during localio code path so recognize that IO needs to be done sync in that case as well. Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

NFS: improve "Server wrote zero bytes" error

2026-04-13T18:17:31+00:00

When a pnfs error occurs, the IO is retried against the MDS. However, the initial IO leads to the kernel logging "Serer wrote zero bytes" when in fact the MDS IO will not fail and thus the error misleads administrators that the system is experiencing issues. When pnfs IO fails which triggers pnfs_write_done_resent_to_mds() which would end up clearing nfs_pgio_header's pages structure (copying the content into a new one to do new RPC calls to the MDS). Thus, in nfs_writeback_result() when we have no pages to work with no need to try and also therefore skip logging the message about 0bytes. Fixes: 6c75dc0d498c ("NFS: merge _full and _partial write rpc_ops") Suggested-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2026-04-13T17:08:01+00:00

Pull vfs writeback updates from Christian Brauner: "This introduces writeback helper APIs and converts f2fs, gfs2 and nfs to stop accessing writeback internals directly" * tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.writeback' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: nfs: stop using writeback internals for WB_WRITEBACK accounting gfs2: stop using writeback internals for dirty_exceeded check f2fs: stop using writeback internals for dirty_exceeded checks writeback: prep helpers for dirty-limit and writeback accounting

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

nfs: stop using writeback internals for WB_WRITEBACK accounting

2026-02-17T12:25:14+00:00

Convert NFS WB_WRITEBACK accounting to writeback helper, eliminating direct access to writeback. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Kundan Kumar Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260213054634.79785-5-kundan.kumar@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

NFS: Merge CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 with CONFIG_NFS_V4

2026-01-30T16:42:21+00:00

Compiling the NFSv4 module without any minorversion support doesn't make much sense, so this patch sets NFS v4.1 as the default, always enabled NFS version allowing us to replace all the CONFIG_NFS_V4_1s scattered throughout the code with CONFIG_NFS_V4. Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker

NFS: Fix a deadlock involving nfs_release_folio()

2026-01-05T04:03:24+00:00

Wang Zhaolong reports a deadlock involving NFSv4.1 state recovery waiting on kthreadd, which is attempting to reclaim memory by calling nfs_release_folio(). The latter cannot make progress due to state recovery being needed. It seems that the only safe thing to do here is to kick off a writeback of the folio, without waiting for completion, or else kicking off an asynchronous commit. Reported-by: Wang Zhaolong Fixes: 96780ca55e3c ("NFS: fix up nfs_release_folio() to try to release the page") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

NFS: check if suid/sgid was cleared after a write as needed

2025-10-13T18:33:00+00:00

I noticed xfstests generic/193 and generic/355 started failing against knfsd after commit e7a8ebc305f2 ("NFSD: Offer write delegation for OPEN with OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_WRITE"). I ran those same tests against ONTAP (which has had write delegation support for a lot longer than knfsd) and they fail there too... so while it's a new failure against knfsd, it isn't an entirely new failure. Add the NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED flag so that the presence of a delegation doesn't keep the inode from being revalidated to fetch the updated mode. Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker

NFSv4/flexfiles: Use ds_commit_idx when marking a write commit

2025-09-26T19:30:20+00:00

Correct this path to use ds_commit_idx. Another noop preparation change. In current code commit_idx == mirror_idx but when striping is enabled that will not be true. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Curley Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker