From: Trond Myklebust Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:38:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] nfs: nfs_getattr() can't call nfs_sync_mapping_range() for non-regular files X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc5~86 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=634707388baa440d9c9d082cfc4c950500c8952b;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git [PATCH] nfs: nfs_getattr() can't call nfs_sync_mapping_range() for non-regular files Looks like we need a check in nfs_getattr() for a regular file. It makes no sense to call nfs_sync_mapping_range() on anything else. I think that should fix your problem: it will stop the NFS client from interfering with dirty pages on that inode's mapping. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Acked-by: Olof Johansson Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index af53c02f473..93d046c85f5 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -429,7 +429,8 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct kstat *stat) int err; /* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime */ - nfs_sync_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, 0, 0, FLUSH_NOCOMMIT); + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + nfs_sync_mapping_range(inode->i_mapping, 0, 0, FLUSH_NOCOMMIT); /* * We may force a getattr if the user cares about atime.