This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfsd: pass proper net to nfsd_destroy() from NFSd kthreads to the 3.4-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: nfsd-pass-proper-net-to-nfsd_destroy-from-nfsd-kthreads.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 88c47666171989ed4c5b1a5687df09511e8c5e35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 18:34:42 +0300 Subject: nfsd: pass proper net to nfsd_destroy() from NFSd kthreads From: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 88c47666171989ed4c5b1a5687df09511e8c5e35 upstream. Since NFSd service is per-net now, we have to pass proper network context in nfsd_shutdown() from NFSd kthreads. The simplest way I found is to get proper net from one of transports with permanent sockets. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> [wengmeiling: backport to 3.4: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c @@ -483,6 +483,8 @@ static int nfsd(void *vrqstp) { struct svc_rqst *rqstp = (struct svc_rqst *) vrqstp; + struct svc_xprt *perm_sock = list_entry(rqstp->rq_server->sv_permsocks.next, typeof(struct svc_xprt), xpt_list); + struct net *net = perm_sock->xpt_net; int err, preverr = 0; /* Lock module and set up kernel thread */ @@ -557,7 +559,7 @@ out: /* Release the thread */ svc_exit_thread(rqstp); - nfsd_destroy(&init_net); + nfsd_destroy(net); /* Release module */ mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-net-to-nfsd_svc.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-proper-net-to-nfsd_destroy-from-nfsd-kthreads.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-net-to-nfsd_init_socks.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-net-to-__write_ports-and-down.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-net-to-nfsd_set_nrthreads.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-net-to-nfsd_create_serv.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-pass-net-to-nfsd_startup-and-nfsd_shutdown.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-containerize-nfsd-filesystem.patch queue-3.4/nfsd-check-passed-socket-s-net-matches-nfsd-superblock-s-one.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html