diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index d6d43b5eafb3274de9df67b7eec1847363fbf35a..fb659bb506780d7eb3a554c484d7d4ec43e2dd40 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -661,6 +661,8 @@ static void nfs_direct_write_reschedule(struct nfs_direct_req *dreq)
 	nfs_direct_write_scan_commit_list(dreq->inode, &reqs, &cinfo);
 
 	dreq->count = 0;
+	dreq->verf.committed = NFS_INVALID_STABLE_HOW;
+	nfs_clear_pnfs_ds_commit_verifiers(&dreq->ds_cinfo);
 	for (i = 0; i < dreq->mirror_count; i++)
 		dreq->mirrors[i].count = 0;
 	get_dreq(dreq);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index 150a8eb0f323a8887a31c50273d0b37e8e675799..0eb5c924886dbea68f509c1ae0a2a5b7df72ce88 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -499,6 +499,23 @@ int nfs_key_timeout_notify(struct file *filp, struct inode *inode);
 bool nfs_ctx_key_to_expire(struct nfs_open_context *ctx);
 void nfs_pageio_stop_mirroring(struct nfs_pageio_descriptor *pgio);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V4_1
+static inline
+void nfs_clear_pnfs_ds_commit_verifiers(struct pnfs_ds_commit_info *cinfo)
+{
+	int i;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < cinfo->nbuckets; i++)
+		cinfo->buckets[i].direct_verf.committed = NFS_INVALID_STABLE_HOW;
+}
+#else
+static inline
+void nfs_clear_pnfs_ds_commit_verifiers(struct pnfs_ds_commit_info *cinfo)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIGRATION
 extern int nfs_migrate_page(struct address_space *,
 		struct page *, struct page *, enum migrate_mode);