diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index eb67098117b4..9824e32b2f23 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -396,10 +396,23 @@ nfsd_setattr(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, struct iattr *iap,
 	bool		get_write_count;
 	bool		size_change = (iap->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE);
 
-	if (iap->ia_valid & (ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_MTIME | ATTR_SIZE))
+	if (iap->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
 		accmode |= NFSD_MAY_WRITE|NFSD_MAY_OWNER_OVERRIDE;
-	if (iap->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)
 		ftype = S_IFREG;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * If utimes(2) and friends are called with times not NULL, we should
+	 * not set NFSD_MAY_WRITE bit. Otherwise fh_verify->nfsd_permission
+	 * will return EACCESS, when the caller's effective UID does not match
+	 * the owner of the file, and the caller is not privileged. In this
+	 * situation, we should return EPERM(notify_change will return this).
+	 */
+	if (iap->ia_valid & (ATTR_ATIME | ATTR_MTIME)) {
+		accmode |= NFSD_MAY_OWNER_OVERRIDE;
+		if (!(iap->ia_valid & (ATTR_ATIME_SET | ATTR_MTIME_SET)))
+			accmode |= NFSD_MAY_WRITE;
+	}
 
 	/* Callers that do fh_verify should do the fh_want_write: */
 	get_write_count = !fhp->fh_dentry;