I'm having a little trouble debugging this sunrpc module refcnt leak in nfsd. Perhaps a fresh pair of eyes can help. nfsd leaks 3 references to the sunrpc module here: # echo -n "asdf 1234" >/proc/fs/nfsd/portlist bash: echo: write error: Protocol not supported Now stop nfsd and try unloading the kernel modules: # systemctl stop nfs-server # systemctl stop nfs # systemctl stop proc-fs-nfsd.mount # systemctl stop var-lib-nfs-rpc_pipefs.mount # rmmod nfsd # rmmod nfs_acl # rmmod lockd # rmmod auth_rpcgss # rmmod sunrpc rmmod: ERROR: Module sunrpc is in use # lsmod | grep rpc sunrpc 315392 3 I have reproduced this from source with a tree based on Linux 4.2-rc3 and also with Linux 4.1.6-200.fc22.x86_64. The following unmatched module_get() calls are recorded by perf record -e module:module_get -e module:module_put. Perhaps the backtrace is a little mangled because I don't see xdr_reserve_space() calls in svc_create_pooled() (even indirectly): nfsd 4291 [002] 87.914752: module:module_get: sunrpc call_site=0xffffffffa031c86as refcnt=7 318d93 try_module_get (vmlinux) 98da xs_tcp_setup_socket ([sunrpc]) 5ca5 xprt_create_transport ([sunrpc]) 34ad rpc_create ([sunrpc]) 1892a rpcb_getport_async ([sunrpc]) 196ea xdr_reserve_space ([sunrpc]) 128dc svc_create_pooled ([sunrpc]) 686 nfsd_create_serv ([nfsd]) 1be9 write_ports ([nfsd]) 182c nfsctl_transaction_write ([nfsd]) 410d87 __vfs_write (vmlinux) 411706 vfs_write (vmlinux) 4123f5 sys_write (vmlinux) 95ed95 tracesys_phase2 (vmlinux) f2ff0 __GI___libc_write (/usr/lib64/libc-2.21.so) nfsd 4291 [002] 87.914775: module:module_get: sunrpc call_site=0xffffffffa03228a5s refcnt=8 318d93 try_module_get (vmlinux) f915 rpcauth_cache_do_shrink ([sunrpc]) 2bbd rpc_new_client ([sunrpc]) 337a rpc_create_xprt ([sunrpc]) 34d6 rpc_create ([sunrpc]) 1892a rpcb_getport_async ([sunrpc]) 196ea xdr_reserve_space ([sunrpc]) 128dc svc_create_pooled ([sunrpc]) 686 nfsd_create_serv ([nfsd]) 1be9 write_ports ([nfsd]) 182c nfsctl_transaction_write ([nfsd]) 410d87 __vfs_write (vmlinux) 411706 vfs_write (vmlinux) 4123f5 sys_write (vmlinux) 95ed95 tracesys_phase2 (vmlinux) f2ff0 __GI___libc_write (/usr/lib64/libc-2.21.so) nfsd 4291 [002] 87.914936: module:module_get: sunrpc call_site=0xffffffffa03228a5s refcnt=9 318d93 try_module_get (vmlinux) f915 rpcauth_cache_do_shrink ([sunrpc]) 2bbd rpc_new_client ([sunrpc]) 2ead __rpc_clone_client ([sunrpc]) 35e7 rpc_bind_new_program ([sunrpc]) 18949 rpcb_getport_async ([sunrpc]) 196ea xdr_reserve_space ([sunrpc]) 128dc svc_create_pooled ([sunrpc]) 686 nfsd_create_serv ([nfsd]) 1be9 write_ports ([nfsd]) 182c nfsctl_transaction_write ([nfsd]) 410d87 __vfs_write (vmlinux) 411706 vfs_write (vmlinux) 4123f5 sys_write (vmlinux) 95ed95 tracesys_phase2 (vmlinux) f2ff0 __GI___libc_write (/usr/lib64/libc-2.21.so) In this trace I modified nfs-utils nfsd to write to portlist but you get the same result with echo from a shell (as shown above). Any ideas? Stefan -- 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