The WARN_ON_ONCE check is not terribly useful. It also seems possible for nfs4_find_file to race with the destruction of an fi_deleg_file while trying to take a reference to it. Now that it's safe to pass nfs_get_file a NULL pointer, remove the WARN and NULL pointer check. Take the fi_lock when fetching fi_deleg_file. Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index 655fcfec0ace..f923bab09a31 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -6415,23 +6415,26 @@ nfsd4_lookup_stateid(struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate, static struct nfsd_file * nfs4_find_file(struct nfs4_stid *s, int flags) { + struct nfsd_file *ret = NULL; + if (!s) return NULL; switch (s->sc_type) { case NFS4_DELEG_STID: - if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!s->sc_file->fi_deleg_file)) - return NULL; - return nfsd_file_get(s->sc_file->fi_deleg_file); + spin_lock(&s->sc_file->fi_lock); + ret = nfsd_file_get(s->sc_file->fi_deleg_file); + spin_unlock(&s->sc_file->fi_lock); + break; case NFS4_OPEN_STID: case NFS4_LOCK_STID: if (flags & RD_STATE) - return find_readable_file(s->sc_file); + ret = find_readable_file(s->sc_file); else - return find_writeable_file(s->sc_file); + ret = find_writeable_file(s->sc_file); } - return NULL; + return ret; } static __be32 -- 2.39.0