From aec39680b02ed55fcbb2bc87ad96eba16a651546 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 17:30:05 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] nfsd4: fix spurious 4.1 post-reboot failures In the NFSv4.1 case, this could cause a spurious "NFSD: failed to write recovery record (err -17); please check that /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery exists and is writable. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Reported-by: Steve Dickson --- fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c index ed083b9a731b..28712e20bb11 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c @@ -144,8 +144,15 @@ nfsd4_create_clid_dir(struct nfs4_client *clp) status = PTR_ERR(dentry); goto out_unlock; } - status = -EEXIST; if (dentry->d_inode) + /* + * In the 4.1 case, where we're called from + * reclaim_complete(), records from the previous reboot + * may still be left, so this is OK. + * + * In the 4.0 case, we should never get here; but we may + * as well be forgiving and just succeed silently. + */ goto out_put; status = mnt_want_write(rec_file->f_path.mnt); if (status)