Hi- nfs4_create_sec_client() and nfs4_lookup_root_sec() both invoke rpcauth_create(). They check to see that it returned something that wasn't NULL. As far as I can tell, rpcauth_create() reports an error by returning something that IS_ERR. It doesn't return NULL. nfs_init_server_rpcclient() appears to be correct. The fix looks simple, but since I don't have any unit tests for this area of code, I was hoping you could take it from here. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- 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