FAILED: patch "[PATCH] NFS: Do not report writeback errors in nfs_getattr()" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From d19e0183a88306acda07f4a01fedeeffe2a2a06b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:05:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Do not report writeback errors in nfs_getattr()

The result of the writeback, whether it is an ENOSPC or an EIO, or
anything else, does not inhibit the NFS client from reporting the
correct file timestamps.

Fixes: 79566ef018f5 ("NFS: Getattr doesn't require data sync semantics")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index a918c3a834b6..d96baa4450e3 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -853,12 +853,9 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
 	}
 
 	/* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime.  */
-	if ((request_mask & (STATX_CTIME|STATX_MTIME)) &&
-			S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-		err = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
-		if (err)
-			goto out;
-	}
+	if ((request_mask & (STATX_CTIME | STATX_MTIME)) &&
+	    S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+		filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
 
 	/*
 	 * We may force a getattr if the user cares about atime.