[PATCH 4.1 25/46] nfsd/blocklayout: accept any minlength

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

4.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

commit 8c3ad9cb7343dc5f61b8cf3cdbe1016c5e7c2c8b upstream.

Recent Linux clients have started to send GETLAYOUT requests with
minlength less than blocksize.

Servers aren't really allowed to impose this kind of restriction on
layouts; see RFC 5661 section 18.43.3 for details.

This has been observed to cause indefinite hangs on fsx runs on some
clients.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c |    8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/blocklayout.c
@@ -56,14 +56,6 @@ nfsd4_block_proc_layoutget(struct inode
 	u32 device_generation = 0;
 	int error;
 
-	/*
-	 * We do not attempt to support I/O smaller than the fs block size,
-	 * or not aligned to it.
-	 */
-	if (args->lg_minlength < block_size) {
-		dprintk("pnfsd: I/O too small\n");
-		goto out_layoutunavailable;
-	}
 	if (seg->offset & (block_size - 1)) {
 		dprintk("pnfsd: I/O misaligned\n");
 		goto out_layoutunavailable;


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