Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix state renewals missing after boot

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 2025-10-08 at 17:09 -0600, Joshua Watt wrote:
> From: Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>
> 
> Since the last renewal time was initialized to 0 and jiffies start
> counting at -5 minutes, any clients connected in the first 5 minutes
> after a reboot would have their renewal timer set to a very long
> interval. If the connection was idle, this would result in the client
> state timing out on the server and the next call to the server would
> return NFS4ERR_BADSESSION.
> 
> Fix this by initializing the last renewal time to the current jiffies
> instead of 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <jpewhacker@gmail.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/client.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
> index 4e3dcc157a83..96cdfeb26a90 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/client.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
> @@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs_alloc_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init)
>  	clp->cl_nconnect = cl_init->nconnect;
>  	clp->cl_max_connect = cl_init->max_connect ? cl_init->max_connect : 1;
>  	clp->cl_net = get_net_track(cl_init->net, &clp->cl_ns_tracker, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	clp->cl_last_renewal = jiffies;
>  
>  #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NFS_LOCALIO)
>  	seqlock_init(&clp->cl_boot_lock);

Nice catch!

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>