[21/30] nfs: Panic when commit fails

[Greg KH]

2.6.29-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: Terry Loftin <terry.loftin@xxxxxx>

commit a8b40bc7e635831b61c43acc71a86d3a68b2dff0 upstream.

Actually pass the NFS_FILE_SYNC option to the server to avoid a
Panic in nfs_direct_write_complete() when a commit fails.

At the end of an nfs write, if the nfs commit fails, all the writes
will be rescheduled.  They are supposed to be rescheduled as NFS_FILE_SYNC
writes, but the rpc_task structure is not completely intialized and so
the option is not passed.  When the rescheduled writes complete, the
return indicates that they are NFS_UNSTABLE and we try to do another
commit.  This leads to a Panic because the commit data structure pointer
was set to null in the initial (failed) commit attempt.

Signed-off-by: Terry Loftin <terry.loftin@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 fs/nfs/direct.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -454,6 +454,7 @@ static void nfs_direct_write_reschedule(
 	};
 	struct rpc_task_setup task_setup_data = {
 		.rpc_client = NFS_CLIENT(inode),
+		.rpc_message = &msg,
 		.callback_ops = &nfs_write_direct_ops,
 		.workqueue = nfsiod_workqueue,
 		.flags = RPC_TASK_ASYNC,


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