* choose to use.
                 */
                goto out;
-       nfs4_copy_open_stateid(dst, state);
-       ret = 0;
+       ret = nfs4_copy_open_stateid(dst, state) ? 0 : -EAGAIN;
 out:
        if (nfs_server_capable(state->inode, NFS_CAP_STATEID_NFSV41))
                dst->seqid = 0;
 
         * stateid.
         */
        if (test_bit(NFS_LAYOUT_INVALID_STID, &lo->plh_flags)) {
+               int status;
 
                /*
                 * The first layoutget for the file. Need to serialize per
                }
 
                first = true;
-               if (nfs4_select_rw_stateid(ctx->state,
+               status = nfs4_select_rw_stateid(ctx->state,
                                        iomode == IOMODE_RW ? FMODE_WRITE : FMODE_READ,
-                                       NULL, &stateid, NULL) != 0) {
+                                       NULL, &stateid, NULL);
+               if (status != 0) {
                        trace_pnfs_update_layout(ino, pos, count,
                                        iomode, lo, lseg,
                                        PNFS_UPDATE_LAYOUT_INVALID_OPEN);
-                       goto out_unlock;
+                       if (status != -EAGAIN)
+                               goto out_unlock;
+                       spin_unlock(&ino->i_lock);
+                       nfs4_schedule_stateid_recovery(server, ctx->state);
+                       pnfs_clear_first_layoutget(lo);
+                       pnfs_put_layout_hdr(lo);
+                       goto lookup_again;
                }
        } else {
                nfs4_stateid_copy(&stateid, &lo->plh_stateid);