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NFSv4/pNFS: Do not fail I/O when we fail to allocate the pNFS layout
authorTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Sat, 14 May 2022 14:08:11 +0000 (10:08 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 14:59:26 +0000 (16:59 +0200)
commitf7820f6dba4dfce63d3a66672f249ba7ca8f359d
tree84e9ea496925664939fd3cba823d01417dc8af06
parent29a60ce7ce36a9b060b9dcb19fda15b8d4b34472
NFSv4/pNFS: Do not fail I/O when we fail to allocate the pNFS layout

[ Upstream commit 3764a17e31d579cf9b4bd0a69894b577e8d75702 ]

Commit 587f03deb69b caused pnfs_update_layout() to stop returning ENOMEM
when the memory allocation fails, and hence causes it to fall back to
trying to do I/O through the MDS. There is no guarantee that this will
fare any better. If we're failing the pNFS layout allocation, then we
should just redirty the page and retry later.

Reported-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@umich.edu>
Fixes: 587f03deb69b ("pnfs: refactor send_layoutget")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
fs/nfs/pnfs.c