Below are races, when RPC client can be created without PiepFS dentries
CPU#0 CPU#1
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rpc_new_client rpc_fill_super
rpc_setup_pipedir
mutex_lock(&sn->pipefs_sb_lock)
rpc_get_sb_net == NULL
(no per-net PipeFS superblock)
sn->pipefs_sb = sb;
notifier_call_chain(MOUNT)
(client is not in the list)
rpc_register_client
(client without pipes dentries)
To fix this patch:
1) makes PipeFS mount notification call with pipefs_sb_lock being held.
2) releases pipefs_sb_lock on new SUNRPC client creation only after
registration.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>