On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 13:48 +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > How about the following? > > >From e7019592dae2945ea4091f42ab54f2a1f13465f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:26:43 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH] NFS: handle inode==NULL in __put_nfs_open_context > > inode may be NULL when put_nfs_open_context is called from nfs_atomic_lookup > before d_add_unique(dentry, inode) > > Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfs/inode.c | 13 ++++++++----- > 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c > index 2ff8142..a4e579c 100644 > --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c > +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c > @@ -654,11 +654,14 @@ static void __put_nfs_open_context(struct nfs_open_context *ctx, int is_sync) > { > struct inode *inode = ctx->path.dentry->d_inode; > > - if (!atomic_dec_and_lock(&ctx->lock_context.count, &inode->i_lock)) > - return; > - list_del(&ctx->list); > - spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); > - NFS_PROTO(inode)->close_context(ctx, is_sync); > + if (inode) { > + if (!atomic_dec_and_lock(&ctx->lock_context.count, &inode->i_lock)) > + return; > + list_del(&ctx->list); > + spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock); > + NFS_PROTO(inode)->close_context(ctx, is_sync); > + } else > + BUG_ON(atomic_dec_return(&ctx->lock_context.count) != 0); > if (ctx->cred != NULL) > put_rpccred(ctx->cred); > path_put(&ctx->path); Hi Benny, Let's drop the BUG_ON() and instead use an atomic_dec_and_test() for the inode==NULL case. That way the refcounting is guaranteed to just work. Cheers Trond -- 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