[PATCH v2] NFS4: Fix state renewals missing after boot

Joshua Watt
2025-10-09T21:48:19Z

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/nfs4client.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
index 6fddf43d729c..5998d6bd8a4f 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4client.c
@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ struct nfs_client *nfs4_alloc_client(const struct nfs_client_initdata *cl_init)
clp->cl_state = 1 << NFS4CLNT_LEASE_EXPIRED;
clp->cl_mvops = nfs_v4_minor_ops[cl_init->minorversion];
clp->cl_mig_gen = 1;
+ clp->cl_last_renewal = jiffies;
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NFS_V4_1)
init_waitqueue_head(&clp->cl_lock_waitq);
#endif
--
2.51.0