This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: restore module put when manager exits. to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: nfs-restore-module-put-when-manager-exits.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 3e8d6e5e8922628d02d00b7bf866bc1323a883dd Author: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 23 14:47:34 2022 +1000 NFS: restore module put when manager exits. [ Upstream commit 080abad71e99d2becf38c978572982130b927a28 ] Commit f49169c97fce ("NFSD: Remove svc_serv_ops::svo_module") removed calls to module_put_and_kthread_exit() from threads that acted as SUNRPC servers and had a related svc_serv_ops structure. This was correct. It ALSO removed the module_put_and_kthread_exit() call from nfs4_run_state_manager() which is NOT a SUNRPC service. Consequently every time the NFSv4 state manager runs the module count increments and won't be decremented. So the nfsv4 module cannot be unloaded. So restore the module_put_and_kthread_exit() call. Fixes: f49169c97fce ("NFSD: Remove svc_serv_ops::svo_module") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c index 61050ffac93ef..d7868cc527805 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c @@ -2766,5 +2766,6 @@ static int nfs4_run_state_manager(void *ptr) goto again; nfs_put_client(clp); + module_put_and_kthread_exit(0); return 0; }