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2006-04-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [ISDN]: Static overruns in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.c [WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma drivers. [BRIDGE] ebtables: fix allocation in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c [DCCP]: Fix leak in net/dccp/ipv4.c [BRIDGE]: receive link-local on disabled ports. [IPv6] reassembly: Always compute hash under the fragment lock.
2006-04-12[ALSA] unregister platform device again if probe was unsuccessfulRene Herman
Unregister the platform device again if the probe was unsuccessful. This restores the behaviour of not loading the driver on probe() failure. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] continue on IS_ERR from platform device registrationRene Herman
Continue with the next one on error from device registration. This would seem the correct thing to do, even if it's not the probe() error that we're getting. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] sound/core/pcm.c: make snd_pcm_format_name() staticAdrian Bunk
Modules: PCM Midlevel This patch makes the needlessly global snd_pcm_format_name() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] ac97 - Add entry for VIA VT1618 codecTakashi Iwai
Modules: AC97 Codec Added the missing entry for VIA VT1618 codec. No particular patch is needed, though. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] hda-codec - Add support of ASUS U5A with AD1986A codecTakashi Iwai
Modules: HDA Codec driver Add the model entry to support of ASUS U5A with AD1986A codec. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] Overrun in sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_pcm.cEric Sesterhenn
Modules: au88x0 driver since idx is used as an index for vortex_pcm_prettyname[VORTEX_PCM_LAST], it should not be equal to VORTEX_PCM_LAST. This fixes coverity bug id #572 Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] au88x0 - clean up __devinit/__devexitDale Sedivec
Modules: au88x0 driver Removed all use of __devinit/__devexit and init.h from headers. Any attributes given in the prototype but not in the function definition have been moved to the definition. An exception is vortex_eq_free: I removed the __devexit attribute because vortex_eq_free is called from vortex_core_shutdown, and vortex_core_shutdown may be called from __devinit snd_vortex_create. Compile tested with allyesconfig and allmodconfig. Signed-off-by: Dale Sedivec <dale@codefu.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] hda-codec - Adds HDA support for Intel D945Pvs board with subdevice ↵Ashley Clark
id 0x0707 Modules: HDA Codec driver This patch adds the entry for the 5-stack pin-config for the STAC chip on the Intel D945Pvs board with subdevice id 0x0707. With this patch against 1.0.11rc4 in the linux kernel 2.6.17-rc1, I'm able to successfully output over the optical port and analog ports. Signed-off-by: Ashley Clark <aclark@ghoti.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] hda-codec - support HP Compaq Presario B2800 laptop with AD1986A codecCoywolf Qi Hunt
Modules: HDA Codec driver This adds the support for HP Compaq Presario B2800 laptop with AD1986A codec. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@freeforge.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] emu10k1: Add some descriptive text.James Courtier-Dutton
Modules: EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver Signed-off-by: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
2006-04-12[ALSA] via82xx - Add a dxs entry for ECS K8T890-ATakashi Iwai
Modules: VIA82xx driver Added a dxs_support entry for ECS K8T890-A board. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] hda-codec - Add another HP laptop with AD1981HDTakashi Iwai
Modules: HDA Codec driver Added the SSID of another HP laptop for the model 'hp' with AD1981HD. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] Fix Oops of PCM OSS emulationTakashi Iwai
Modules: PCM Midlevel,ALSA<-OSS emulation Fix Oops of PCM OSS emulation occuring when multiple playback is used. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-12[ALSA] pcm_oss: fix snd_pcm_oss_release() oopsOGAWA Hirofumi
Modules: ALSA<-OSS emulation Fix Oops due to a typo in snd_pcm_oss.c. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-11[ISDN]: Static overruns in drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_ppp.cEric Sesterhenn
Coverity found some static overruns in isdn_ppp.c (bug id #519) At several places slot is compared <0 and > ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS and then used to index ippp_table[ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS] A value of slot = ISDN_MAX_CHANNELS would run over the end of the array. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11[WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma drivers.Adrian Bunk
The in-kernel Sangoma drivers are both not compiling and marked as BROKEN since at least kernel 2.6.0. Sangoma offers out-of-tree drivers, and David Mandelstam told me Sangoma does no longer maintain the in-kernel drivers and prefers to provide them as a separate installation package. This patch therefore removes these drivers. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11[BRIDGE] ebtables: fix allocation in net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.cJayachandran C
Allocate an array of 'struct ebt_chainstack *', the current code allocates array of 'struct ebt_chainstack'. akpm: converted to use the foo = alloc(sizeof(*foo)) form. Which would have prevented this from happening in the first place. akpm: also removed unneeded typecast. akpm: what on earth is this code doing anyway? cpu_possible_map can be sparse.. Signed-off-by: Jayachandran C. <c.jayachandran@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11[DCCP]: Fix leak in net/dccp/ipv4.cEric Sesterhenn
we dont free req if we cant parse the options. This fixes coverity bug id #1046 Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11[BRIDGE]: receive link-local on disabled ports.Stephen Hemminger
This change allows link local packets (like 802.3ad and Spanning Tree Protocol) to be processed even when the bridge is not using the port. It fixes the chicken-egg problem for bridging a bonded device, and may also fix problems with spanning tree failover. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11[IPv6] reassembly: Always compute hash under the fragment lock.Zach Brown
This closes a race where an ipq6hashfn() caller could get a hash value and race with the cycling of the random seed. By the time they got to the read_lock they'd have a stale hash value and might not find previous fragments of their datagram. This matches the previous patch to IPv4. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-11[PATCH] __group_complete_signal: remove bogus BUG_ONOleg Nesterov
Commit e56d090310d7625ecb43a1eeebd479f04affb48b [PATCH] RCU signal handling made this BUG_ON() unsafe. This code runs under ->siglock, while switch_exec_pids() takes tasklist_lock. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: kconfig: fix typo in change count initialization kconfig: recenter menuconfig kconfig: revert conf behaviour change kconfig: fix default value for choice input kbuild: fix NULL dereference in scripts/mod/modpost.c kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files. kbuild: rebuild initramfs if content of initramfs changes kbuild: properly pass options to hostcc when doing make O=.. kbuild: modules_install for external modules must not remove existing modules kbuild: fix make dir/ ver_linux: don't print reiser4progs version if none found kbuild: mips: fix sed regexp to generate asm-offset.h kbuild: fix building single targets with make O=.. single-target kbuild: use relative path to -I kbuild: fix unneeded rebuilds in drivers/net/chelsio after moving source tree kbuild: fix unneeded rebuilds in drivers/media/video after moving source tree kbuild: fix garbled text in modules.txt
2006-04-11Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6: [IA64] Prefetch mmap_sem in ia64_do_page_fault() [IA64] Failure to resume after INIT in user space [IA64] Pass more data to the MCA/INIT notify_die hooks [IA64] always map VGA framebuffer UC, even if it supports WB [IA64] fix bug in ia64 __mutex_fastpath_trylock [IA64] for_each_possible_cpu: ia64 [IA64] update HP CSR space discovery via ACPI [IA64] Wire up new syscalls {set,get}_robust_list [IA64] 'msg' may be used uninitialized in xpc_initiate_allocate() [IA64] Wire up new syscall sync_file_range()
2006-04-11[PATCH] x86_64: inline function prefix with __always_inline in vsyscallmao, bibo
In vsyscall function do_vgettimeofday(), some functions are declared as inlined, which is a hint for gcc to compile the function inlined but it not forced. Sometimes compiler does not compile the function as inlined, so here inline is replaced by __always_inline prefix. It does not happen in gcc compiler actually, but it possibly happens. Signed-off-by: bibo mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] x86_64: Fix embarassing typo in mmconfig bus checkAndi Kleen
Surprising that it still worked at all with this - yes it was tested. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove checks for value == NULL in PCI config space accessAndi Kleen
Nobody should pass NULL here. Could in theory make it a BUG, but the NULL pointer oops will do as well. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] i386: Remove bogus special case code from AMD core parsingAndi Kleen
It's not actually needed and would break non power of two number of cores. Follows similar earlier x86-64 patch. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] x86_64: fix sync before RDTSC on Intel cpusSiddha, Suresh B
Commit c818a18146997d1356a4840b0c01f1168c16c8a4 didn't do the expected thing. This fix will remove the additional sync(cpuid) before RDTSC on Intel platforms.. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] x86_64: Remove check for canonical RIPAndi Kleen
As pointed out by Linus it is useless now because entry.S should handle it correctly in all cases. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] x86-64/i386: Don't process APICs/IO-APICs in ACPI when APIC is disabled.Andi Kleen
When nolapic was passed or the local APIC was disabled for another reason ACPI would still parse the IO-APICs until these were explicitely disabled with noapic. Usually this resulted in a non booting configuration unless "nolapic noapic" was used. I also disabled the local APIC parsing in this case, although that's only cosmetic (suppresses a few printks) This hopefully makes nolapic work in all cases. Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation [PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_* [PATCH] splice: warning fix [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups [PATCH] splice: comment styles [PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder [PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations [PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros [PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read [PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction [PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead() [PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping [PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read() [PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to [PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference [PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed
2006-04-11[PATCH] Overrun in option-card USB driverMatthias Urlichs
Since the arrays are declared as in_urbs[N_IN_URB] and out_urbs[N_OUT_URB], both for loops go one over the end of the array. This fixes coverity id #555. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> Signed-Off-By: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] fbdev: Use logo with depth of 4 or less for static pseudocolorAntonino A. Daplas
Since the visual STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR has a read-only colormap, use logos with 16 colors only since these logos use the console palette. This has a higher likelihood that the logo will display correctly. Signed-of-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] vesafb: Fix incorrect logo colors in x86_64Antonino A. Daplas
Bugzilla Bug 6299: A pixel size of 8 bits produces wrong logo colors in x86_64. The driver has 2 methods for setting the color map, using the protected mode interface provided by the video BIOS and directly writing to the VGA registers. The former is not supported in x86_64 and the latter is enabled only in i386. Fix by enabling the latter method in x86_64 only if supported by the BIOS. If both methods are unsupported, change the visual of vesafb to STATIC_PSEUDOCOLOR. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] sparc32 vga supportAndrew Morton
sparc32 lacks vga.h, so lots of fbdev drivers won't compile. There are no sparc32 systems with PCI slots, so it's a bit moot. The patch gives sparc32 a copy of the sparc64 vga.h. It fixes sparc32 allmodconfig without mucking up fbdev Kconfig and gives us wider compile coverage. Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] atyfb is bust on sparc32Andrew Morton
Heaps of build errors - disable it to keep sparc32 allmodconfig happy. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] video/aty/atyfb_base.c: fix an off-by-one errorAdrian Bunk
Fix an obvious of-by-one error spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: grant delegations more frequentlyNeilBrown
Keep unused openowners around for at least one lease period, to avoid the need for as many open confirmations and to allow handing out more delegations. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: limit number of delegations handed out.NeilBrown
It's very easy for the server to DOS itself by just giving out too many delegations. For now we just solve the problem with a dumb hard limit. Eventually we'll want a smarter policy. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: add missing rpciod_down()NeilBrown
We should be shutting down rpciod for the callback channel when we shut down the server. Also note that we do rpciod_up() and create the callback client *before* setting cb_set--the cb_set only determines whether the initial null was succesful. So cb_set is not a reliable determiner of whether we need to clean up, only cb_client is. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: nfsd4_probe_callback cleanupNeilBrown
Some obvious cleanup. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix laundromat shutdown raceNeilBrown
We need to make sure the laundromat work doesn't reschedule itself just when we try to cancel it. Also, we shouldn't be waiting for it to finish running while holding the state lock, as that's a potential deadlock. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: svcrpc: WARN() instead of returning an error from svc_take_pageJ. Bruce Fields
Every caller of svc_take_page ignores its return value and assumes it succeeded. So just WARN() instead of returning an ignored error. This would have saved some time debugging a recent nfsd4 problem. If there are still failure cases here, then the result is probably that we overwrite an earlier part of the reply while xdr-encoding. While the corrupted reply is a nasty bug, it would be worse to panic here and create the possibility of a remote DOS; hence WARN() instead of BUG(). Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: svcrpc: gss: don't call svc_take_page unnecessarilyNeilBrown
We're using svc_take_page here to get another page for the tail in case one wasn't already allocated. But there isn't always guaranteed to be another page available. Also fix a typo that made us check the tail buffer for space when we meant to be checking the head buffer. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix corruption on readdir encoding with 64k pagesNeilBrown
Fix corruption on readdir encoding with 64k pages. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: fix corruption of returned data when using 64k pagesNeilBrown
In v4 we grab an extra page just for the padding of returned data. The formula that the rpc server uses to allocate pages for the response doesn't take into account this extra page. Instead of adjusting those formulae, we adopt the same solution as v2 and v3, and put the "tail" data in the same page as the "head" data. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: remove nfsd_setuser from putrootfhNeilBrown
Since nfsd_setuser() is already called from any operation that uses the current filehandle (because it's called from fh_verify), there's no reason to call it from putrootfh. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: nfsd_setuser doesn't really need to modify rqstp->rq_cred.NeilBrown
In addition to setting the processes filesystem id's, nfsd_setuser also modifies the value of the rq_cred which stores the id's that originally came from the rpc call, for example to reflect root squashing. There's no real reason to do that--the only case where rqstp->rq_cred is actually used later on is in the NFSv4 SETCLIENTID/SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM operations, and there the results are the opposite of what we want--those two operations don't deal with the filesystem at all, they only record the credentials used with the rpc call for later reference (so that we may require the same credentials be used on later operations), and the credentials shouldn't vary just because there was or wasn't a previous operation in the compound that referred to some export This fixes a bug which caused mounts from Solaris clients to fail. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd: oops exporting nonexistent directoryNeilBrown
Export a directory that does not exist: exportfs -orw,fsid=0,insecure,no_subtree_check client:/home/NFS4 Try to mount from client with nfs4. Mount hangs (I'm not sure why - that's another issue). While client is hung, back on server mkdir /home/NFS4 The server panics in dput. I traced the problem back to svc_export_parse() calling path_release() even though path_lookup() failed (it happens to fill in the nameidata structure with a negative dentry - so the test after out: succeeds). After patching, an recreating the problem, the client mount still takes some time before finally exiting with a message "couldn't read superblock". Here is a simple patch to resolve this issue: Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilzlnx@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>