Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] NFSv4: Ensure that we drain the session before shutting it down

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> On Aug 19, 2016, at 09:41, Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi Trond, Kinglong,
> 
> What has happened to this patch?

It was dropped, since it should be unnecessary. The delegreturn calls from nfs4_evict_inode() should now be synchronous, and other calls should normally grab a reference to the inode+super block.

> 
> I believe the lack of this patch is causing the following problem on
> the nfsv4.1 mount:
> 1. client has delegations
> 2. unmount is initiated which as Kinglong points out:
> -- initiates asynchronous DELEGRETURNs.
> -- then in nfs_free_server() it ends up killing ongoing rpc tasks with
> DELEGRETURN.
> -- nfs41_proc_sequence() takes a reference on the client structure.
> However since the RPCs are killed there is no call to nfs_put_client()
> which is done in the nfs4_sequence_release()

task->tk_ops->rpc_release() is guaranteed to be run.

> -- then in nfs_put_client() the reference count doesn't go down to 0
> and DESTROY_SESSION isn't called. The user's umount succeeds but we
> still have the client structure with a session.



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