[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 <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

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.