Commit 3a06bac5 authored Feb 20, 2026 by Olga Kornievskaia Committed by Trond Myklebust Apr 13, 2026

NFS: improve "Server wrote zero bytes" error

When a pnfs error occurs, the IO is retried against the MDS. However,
the initial IO leads to the kernel logging "Serer wrote zero bytes"
when in fact the MDS IO will not fail and thus the error misleads
administrators that the system is experiencing issues.

When pnfs IO fails which triggers pnfs_write_done_resent_to_mds() which
would end up clearing nfs_pgio_header's pages structure (copying the
content into a new one to do new RPC calls to the MDS). Thus,
in nfs_writeback_result() when we have no pages to work with no need
to try and also therefore skip logging the message about 0bytes.

Fixes: 6c75dc0d ("NFS: merge _full and _partial write rpc_ops")
Suggested-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>

parent 1805e6b2

fs/nfs/write.c

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ static void nfs_writeback_result(struct rpc_task *task,
		struct nfs_pgio_args *argp = &hdr->args;
		struct nfs_pgio_res *resp = &hdr->res;

		if (resp->count < argp->count) {
		if (resp->count < argp->count && !list_empty(&hdr->pages)) {
		static unsigned long complain;

		/* This a short write! */