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-rw-r--r--fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
index 41e34dfd4e5f..dadff09b0b0c 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
@@ -1069,8 +1069,10 @@ _nfsd4_verify(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
cstate->current_fh.fh_dentry, &p,
count, verify->ve_bmval,
rqstp, 0);
-
- /* this means that nfsd4_encode_fattr() ran out of space */
+ /*
+ * If nfsd4_encode_fattr() ran out of space, assume that's because
+ * the attributes are longer (hence different) than those given:
+ */
if (status == nfserr_resource)
status = nfserr_not_same;
if (status)