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nfsd: reset write verifier on deferred writeback errors
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Fri, 22 May 2026 16:44:19 +0000 (12:44 -0400)
committerChuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Tue, 9 Jun 2026 20:32:59 +0000 (16:32 -0400)
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>
fs/nfsd/vfs.c

index cba4739694293c527977b91c45c73964171a6c56..7e6468bdc723a5203f5bf0a6e8d16edda5c90907 100644 (file)
@@ -1513,8 +1513,10 @@ nfsd_vfs_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
        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 && fhp->fh_use_wgather) {
                host_err = wait_for_concurrent_writes(file);
@@ -1694,6 +1696,8 @@ 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: