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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] nfsd: reset write verifier on deferred writeback errors
Date: Sun,  5 Jul 2026 10:40:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260705144023.1865360-2-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260705144023.1865360-1-sashal@kernel.org>

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 2090b05803faab8a9fa62fbff871007862cac1b7 ]

nfsd_vfs_write() and nfsd_commit() both call filemap_check_wb_err() to
detect deferred writeback errors, but neither rotates the server's write
verifier (nn->writeverf) when this check fails. Every other
durable-storage-failure path in these functions calls
commit_reset_write_verifier() before returning an error.

The missing rotation means clients holding UNSTABLE write data under the
current verifier will COMMIT, receive the unchanged verifier back, and
conclude their data is durable — silently dropping data that failed
writeback. This violates the UNSTABLE+COMMIT durability contract
(RFC 1813 §3.3.7, RFC 8881 §18.32).

Add commit_reset_write_verifier() calls at both filemap_check_wb_err()
error sites, matching the pattern used by adjacent error paths in the
same functions. The helper already filters -EAGAIN and -ESTALE
internally, so the calls are unconditionally safe.

Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Fixes: 555dbf1a9aac ("nfsd: Replace use of rwsem with errseq_t")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: kres:claude-opus-4-6
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index f83b312fe3b4d4..a37137d722c9e7 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1201,8 +1201,10 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct nfsd_file *nf,
 	nfsd_stats_io_write_add(nn, exp, *cnt);
 	fsnotify_modify(file);
 	host_err = filemap_check_wb_err(file->f_mapping, since);
-	if (host_err < 0)
+	if (host_err < 0) {
+		commit_reset_write_verifier(nn, rqstp, host_err);
 		goto out_nfserr;
+	}
 
 	if (stable && use_wgather) {
 		host_err = wait_for_concurrent_writes(file);
@@ -1344,6 +1346,8 @@ nfsd_commit(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct nfsd_file *nf,
 			nfsd_copy_write_verifier(verf, nn);
 			err2 = filemap_check_wb_err(nf->nf_file->f_mapping,
 						    since);
+			if (err2 < 0)
+				commit_reset_write_verifier(nn, rqstp, err2);
 			err = nfserrno(err2);
 			break;
 		case -EINVAL:
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-05 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-02 13:59 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] nfsd: reset write verifier on deferred writeback errors" failed to apply to 6.6-stable tree gregkh
2026-07-05 14:40 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] nfsd: Don't reset the write verifier on a commit EAGAIN Sasha Levin
2026-07-05 14:40   ` Sasha Levin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-07-02 21:41 [PATCH 6.6.y 1/2] nfsd: release layout stid on setlease failure Chuck Lever
2026-07-02 21:41 ` [PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] nfsd: reset write verifier on deferred writeback errors Chuck Lever

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