If it fails, it means that the client is in use and so destroying it would be bad. Currently, the client_mutex prevents this from happening but once we remove it, we won't be able to do this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index 75d0f5cec1b1..4c7b1326046e 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -2440,8 +2440,10 @@ nfsd4_create_session(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, old = find_confirmed_client_by_name(&unconf->cl_name, nn); if (old) { status = mark_client_expired_locked(old); - if (status) + if (status) { + old = NULL; goto out_free_conn; + } } move_to_confirmed(unconf); conf = unconf; @@ -2985,8 +2987,10 @@ nfsd4_setclientid_confirm(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, old = find_confirmed_client_by_name(&unconf->cl_name, nn); if (old) { status = mark_client_expired_locked(old); - if (status) + if (status) { + old = NULL; goto out; + } } move_to_confirmed(unconf); conf = unconf; -- 1.9.3 -- 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