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SUNRPC: Fix potential race in put_rpccred()
authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:21:42 +0000 (15:21 -0400)
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:21:42 +0000 (15:21 -0400)
commit5f707eb429e2c98dfd564ffbbd9f536bf493d869
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SUNRPC: Fix potential race in put_rpccred()

We have to be careful when we try to unhash the credential in
put_rpccred(), because we're not holding the credcache lock, so the call to
rpcauth_unhash_cred() may fail if someone else has looked the cred up, and
obtained a reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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