Hello Andrew and Bruce,

Yes, with this patch applied, i can now start the NFSD kernel server again.

Much Thanks,

Bye,

Philippe

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 15:58:23 -0800
Andrew Morton [off-list ref] wrote:

  | Philippe Gramoulle  [off-list ref] wrote:
  | >
  | > Starting with 2.6.3-rc1-mm1, nfsd isn't working any more. Exportfs just hangs.
  | 
  | Yes, sorry.  The nfsd patches had a painful birth.  This chunk got lost.
  | 
  | --- 25/net/sunrpc/svcauth.c~nfsd-02-sunrpc-cache-init-fixes	Mon Feb  9 14:04:03 2004
  | +++ 25-akpm/net/sunrpc/svcauth.c	Mon Feb  9 14:06:26 2004
  | @@ -150,7 +150,13 @@ DefineCacheLookup(struct auth_domain,
  |  		  &auth_domain_cache,
  |  		  auth_domain_hash(item),
  |  		  auth_domain_match(tmp, item),
  | -		  kfree(new); if(!set) return NULL;
  | +		  kfree(new); if(!set) {
  | +			if (new)
  | +				write_unlock(&auth_domain_cache.hash_lock);
  | +			else
  | +				read_unlock(&auth_domain_cache.hash_lock);
  | +			return NULL;
  | +		  }
  |  		  new=item; atomic_inc(&new->h.refcnt),
  |  		  /* no update */,
  |  		  0 /* no inplace updates */
  | 
  | _
  | 
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