Re: possible module refcount leak with auth_gss

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On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 11:25:06AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> It works. With a nfs-utils that has your patches to properly set the
> cache timeouts it looks like this problem is generally fixed. The module
> refcounts go back to normal once the tickets expire.
> 
> That said, I think we should have a look at Bruce's suggestion for changing
> the way that the module refcounts are actually handled. It would seem to
> make more sense to hold the reference based on the exports using that auth
> scheme, and to purge the caches on module unload.
> 
> Not a huge deal, but probably something we should consider.

Yeah.  Since I don't care enough about module unloading, I'm not going
to work on this now.  But it's unfortunate.

I'm a little more worried about why the RPC_GSS_PROC_DESTROY requests
aren't working.

--b.
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