[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "NFSv4: don't fail on missing fattr in open recover" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    NFSv4: don't fail on missing fattr in open recover

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Weston Andros Adamson <dros at netapp.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 13:10:11 -0400
Subject: NFSv4: don't fail on missing fattr in open recover

commit a43ec98b72aae3e330f0673438f58316c3769b84 upstream.

This is an unneeded check that could cause the client to fail to recover
opens.

Signed-off-by: Weston Andros Adamson <dros at netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
index c6dce26..84c6225 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
@@ -1236,12 +1236,6 @@ _nfs4_opendata_reclaim_to_nfs4_state(struct nfs4_opendata *data)
 		goto err;
 	}

-	ret = -ESTALE;
-	if (!(data->f_attr.valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_TYPE) ||
-	    !(data->f_attr.valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_FILEID) ||
-	    !(data->f_attr.valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_CHANGE))
-		goto err;
-
 	ret = -ENOMEM;
 	state = nfs4_get_open_state(inode, data->owner);
 	if (state == NULL)
--
1.8.3.2