/* Are we racing with known updates of the metadata on the server? */
        data_stable = nfs_verify_change_attribute(inode, fattr->time_start);
-       if (data_stable)
-               nfsi->cache_validity &= ~(NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR|NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE|NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME);
+       nfsi->cache_validity &= ~(NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR | NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME
+                       | NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE);
 
        /* Do atomic weak cache consistency updates */
        nfs_wcc_update_inode(inode, fattr);
                        nfsi->attrtimeo = NFS_MAXATTRTIMEO(inode);
                nfsi->attrtimeo_timestamp = now;
        }
+       invalid &= ~NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR;
        /* Don't invalidate the data if we were to blame */
        if (!(S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)
                                || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)))
                invalid &= ~NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
-       if (data_stable)
-               invalid &= ~(NFS_INO_INVALID_ATTR|NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME|NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE);
        if (!nfs_have_delegation(inode, FMODE_READ) ||
                        (nfsi->cache_validity & NFS_INO_REVAL_FORCED))
                nfsi->cache_validity |= invalid;