On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:50:45PM -0700, Ricardo Labiaga wrote: > renew_client() manipulates the client queue for lease renewal. Need to > obtain the client_mutex before manipulating it. > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c > index 4cb5d1d..18258d7 100644 > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c > @@ -1537,7 +1537,9 @@ replay_cache: > * Hold a session reference until done processing the compound: > * nfsd4_put_session called only if the cstate slot is set. > */ > + nfs4_lock_state(); > renew_client(session->se_client); > + nfs4_unlock_state(); > nfsd4_get_session(session); > out: > spin_unlock(&sessionid_lock); We can't take a mutex while handling a spinlock. (And you should have gotten warnings about this--not sure what kernel hacking config options you may need turned on for that.) Possible hack: add a spinlock that for now will just cover the client lru? --b. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html