2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
index 1f95e7731886..1bd0d0c05171 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs41-server.txt
@@ -213,3 +213,10 @@ The following cases aren't supported yet:
   DESTROY_CLIENTID, DESTROY_SESSION, EXCHANGE_ID.
 * DESTROY_SESSION MUST be the final operation in the COMPOUND request.
 
+Nonstandard compound limitations:
+* No support for a sessions fore channel RPC compound that requires both a
+  ca_maxrequestsize request and a ca_maxresponsesize reply, so we may
+  fail to live up to the promise we made in CREATE_SESSION fore channel
+  negotiation.
+* No more than one IO operation (read, write, readdir) allowed per
+  compound.
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 2153f9bdbebd..fcb9817881a1 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -477,13 +477,14 @@ static int set_forechannel_drc_size(struct nfsd4_channel_attrs *fchan)
 
 /*
  * fchan holds the client values on input, and the server values on output
+ * sv_max_mesg is the maximum payload plus one page for overhead.
  */
 static int init_forechannel_attrs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
                                   struct nfsd4_channel_attrs *session_fchan,
                                   struct nfsd4_channel_attrs *fchan)
 {
         int status = 0;
-        __u32   maxcount = svc_max_payload(rqstp);
+        __u32   maxcount = nfsd_serv->sv_max_mesg;
 
         /* headerpadsz set to zero in encode routine */