From: NeilBrown rpc_create_client was modified recently to do its own (synchronous) NULL ping of the server. We'd rather do that on our own, asynchronously, so that we don't have to block the nfsd thread doing the probe, and so that setclientid handling (hence, client mounts) can proceed normally whether the callback is succesful or not. (We can still function fine without the callback channel--we just won't be able to give out delegations till it's verified to work.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Signed-off-by: Neil Brown Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 2 +- net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c~nfsd4-fix-probe_callback fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c --- 25/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c~nfsd4-fix-probe_callback Thu Jun 2 16:24:51 2005 +++ 25-akpm/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c Thu Jun 2 16:24:51 2005 @@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ nfsd4_probe_callback(struct nfs4_client * XXX AUTH_UNIX only - need AUTH_GSS.... */ sprintf(hostname, "%u.%u.%u.%u", NIPQUAD(addr.sin_addr.s_addr)); - clnt = rpc_create_client(xprt, hostname, program, 1, RPC_AUTH_UNIX); + clnt = rpc_new_client(xprt, hostname, program, 1, RPC_AUTH_UNIX); if (IS_ERR(clnt)) { dprintk("NFSD: couldn't create callback client\n"); goto out_err; diff -puN net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c~nfsd4-fix-probe_callback net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c --- 25/net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c~nfsd4-fix-probe_callback Thu Jun 2 16:24:51 2005 +++ 25-akpm/net/sunrpc/sunrpc_syms.c Thu Jun 2 16:24:51 2005 @@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_release_task); /* RPC client functions */ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_create_client); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_new_client); EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_clone_client); EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_bind_new_program); EXPORT_SYMBOL(rpc_destroy_client); _