NFSv4.x: Fail client initialisation if state manager thread can't run

[ Upstream commit b4e4f66901658fae0614dea5bf91062a5387eda7 ]

If the state manager thread fails to start, then we should just mark the
client initialisation as failed so that other processes or threads don't
get stuck in nfs_wait_client_init_complete().

Reported-by: ChenXiaoSong <chenxiaosong2@huawei.com>
Fixes: 4697bd5e9419 ("NFSv4: Fix a race in the net namespace mount notification")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
index ecac56b..0cd803b 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
@@ -1227,6 +1227,8 @@ void nfs4_schedule_state_manager(struct nfs_client *clp)
        if (IS_ERR(task)) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "%s: kthread_run: %ld\n",
                        __func__, PTR_ERR(task));
+               if (!nfs_client_init_is_complete(clp))
+                       nfs_mark_client_ready(clp, PTR_ERR(task));
                nfs4_clear_state_manager_bit(clp);
                nfs_put_client(clp);
                module_put(THIS_MODULE);