FAILED: patch "[PATCH] NFSD: Define a proc_layoutcommit for the FlexFiles layout" failed to apply to 6.17-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.17-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>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.17.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 4b47a8601b71ad98833b447d465592d847b4dc77
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025102049-comic-carpentry-952e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.17.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

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

From 4b47a8601b71ad98833b447d465592d847b4dc77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:12:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] NFSD: Define a proc_layoutcommit for the FlexFiles layout
 type

Avoid a crash if a pNFS client should happen to send a LAYOUTCOMMIT
operation on a FlexFiles layout.

Reported-by: Robert Morris <rtm@csail.mit.edu>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/152f99b2-ba35-4dec-93a9-4690e625dccd@oracle.com/T/#t
Cc: Thomas Haynes <loghyr@hammerspace.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 9b9960a0ca47 ("nfsd: Add a super simple flex file server")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/flexfilelayout.c b/fs/nfsd/flexfilelayout.c
index c318cf74e388..0f1a35400cd5 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/flexfilelayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/flexfilelayout.c
@@ -125,6 +125,13 @@ nfsd4_ff_proc_getdeviceinfo(struct super_block *sb, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static __be32
+nfsd4_ff_proc_layoutcommit(struct inode *inode, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
+		struct nfsd4_layoutcommit *lcp)
+{
+	return nfs_ok;
+}
+
 const struct nfsd4_layout_ops ff_layout_ops = {
 	.notify_types		=
 			NOTIFY_DEVICEID4_DELETE | NOTIFY_DEVICEID4_CHANGE,
@@ -133,4 +140,5 @@ const struct nfsd4_layout_ops ff_layout_ops = {
 	.encode_getdeviceinfo	= nfsd4_ff_encode_getdeviceinfo,
 	.proc_layoutget		= nfsd4_ff_proc_layoutget,
 	.encode_layoutget	= nfsd4_ff_encode_layoutget,
+	.proc_layoutcommit	= nfsd4_ff_proc_layoutcommit,
 };