FAILED: patch "[PATCH] NFSD: Fix zero-length NFSv3 WRITEs" failed to apply to 5.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 5.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 6a2f774424bfdcc2df3e17de0cefe74a4269cad5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:52:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] NFSD: Fix zero-length NFSv3 WRITEs

The Linux NFS server currently responds to a zero-length NFSv3 WRITE request with NFS3ERR_IO. It responds to a zero-length NFSv4 WRITE with NFS4_OK and count of zero.

RFC 1813 says of the WRITE procedure's @count argument:

count
The number of bytes of data to be written. If count is 0, the WRITE will succeed and return a count of 0, barring errors due to permissions checking.

RFC 8881 has similar language for NFSv4, though NFSv4 removed the explicit @count argument because that value is already contained in the opaque payload array.

The synthetic client pynfs's WRT4 and WRT15 tests do emit zero- length WRITEs to exercise this spec requirement. Commit fdec6114ee1f ("nfsd4: zero-length WRITE should succeed") addressed the same problem there with the same fix.

But interestingly the Linux NFS client does not appear to emit zero- length WRITEs, instead squelching them. I'm not aware of a test that can generate such WRITEs for NFSv3, so I wrote a naive C program to generate a zero-length WRITE and test this fix.

index 4418517f6f12..2c681785186f 100644
@@ -202,15 +202,11 @@ nfsd3_proc_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	fh_copy(&resp->fh, &argp->fh);
 	resp->committed = argp->stable;
 	nvecs = svc_fill_write_vector(rqstp, &argp->payload);
-	if (!nvecs) {
-		resp->status = nfserr_io;
-		goto out;
-	}
+
 	resp->status = nfsd_write(rqstp, &resp->fh, argp->offset,
 				  rqstp->rq_vec, nvecs, &cnt,
 				  resp->committed, resp->verf);
 	resp->count = cnt;
-out:
 	return rpc_success;
 }
 

index eea5b59b6a6c..1743ed04197e 100644
@@ -235,10 +235,6 @@ nfsd_proc_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		argp->len, argp->offset);
 
 	nvecs = svc_fill_write_vector(rqstp, &argp->payload);
-	if (!nvecs) {
-		resp->status = nfserr_io;
-		goto out;
-	}
 
 	resp->status = nfsd_write(rqstp, fh_copy(&resp->fh, &argp->fh),
 				  argp->offset, rqstp->rq_vec, nvecs,

@@ -247,7 +243,6 @@ nfsd_proc_write(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		resp->status = fh_getattr(&resp->fh, &resp->stat);
 	else if (resp->status == nfserr_jukebox)
 		return rpc_drop_reply;
-out:
 	return rpc_success;
 }