Good catch! Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> But maybe it's better to write the code so that the intent is obvious: diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index f6b2a09..3c4c3d2 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -3215,11 +3215,13 @@ alloc_init_open_stateowner(unsigned int strhashval, struct nfsd4_open *open, INIT_LIST_HEAD(&oo->oo_close_lru); spin_lock(&clp->cl_lock); ret = find_openstateowner_str_locked(strhashval, open, clp); - if (ret == NULL) { - hash_openowner(oo, clp, strhashval); - ret = oo; - } else + if (ret) { nfs4_free_openowner(&oo->oo_owner); + spin_unlock(&clp->cl_lock); + return ret; + } + + hash_openowner(oo, clp, strhashval); spin_unlock(&clp->cl_lock); return oo; } -- 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