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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-06-27 00:57:41 +0400
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2007-07-11 07:40:36 +0400
commit1dd17ec693bf4a08b666c2ef76b68ca08ce3c93d (patch)
tree633aabf459c0beafc5ed0ebd7c0efd2e58e7c22b /net/sunrpc
parent5d28dc82074f1e64b22c9424b161abc1f5d6bcdb (diff)
downloadlinux-1dd17ec693bf4a08b666c2ef76b68ca08ce3c93d.tar.xz
SUNRPC: Allow rpc_auth to run clean up before the rpc_client is destroyed
RPCSEC_GSS needs to be able to send NULL RPC calls to the server in order to free up any remaining GSS contexts. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sunrpc')
-rw-r--r--net/sunrpc/clnt.c30
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 98df44e453fe..28a789419f64 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -352,10 +352,6 @@ rpc_free_client(struct kref *kref)
dprintk("RPC: destroying %s client for %s\n",
clnt->cl_protname, clnt->cl_server);
- if (clnt->cl_auth) {
- rpcauth_release(clnt->cl_auth);
- clnt->cl_auth = NULL;
- }
if (!IS_ERR(clnt->cl_dentry)) {
rpc_rmdir(clnt->cl_dentry);
rpc_put_mount();
@@ -376,6 +372,30 @@ out_free:
}
/*
+ * Free an RPC client
+ */
+static void
+rpc_free_auth(struct kref *kref)
+{
+ struct rpc_clnt *clnt = container_of(kref, struct rpc_clnt, cl_kref);
+
+ if (clnt->cl_auth == NULL) {
+ rpc_free_client(kref);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Note: RPCSEC_GSS may need to send NULL RPC calls in order to
+ * release remaining GSS contexts. This mechanism ensures
+ * that it can do so safely.
+ */
+ kref_init(kref);
+ rpcauth_release(clnt->cl_auth);
+ clnt->cl_auth = NULL;
+ kref_put(kref, rpc_free_client);
+}
+
+/*
* Release reference to the RPC client
*/
void
@@ -385,7 +405,7 @@ rpc_release_client(struct rpc_clnt *clnt)
if (list_empty(&clnt->cl_tasks))
wake_up(&destroy_wait);
- kref_put(&clnt->cl_kref, rpc_free_client);
+ kref_put(&clnt->cl_kref, rpc_free_auth);
}
/**