NFS: Add ability to send MOUNTPROC_UMNT to the kernel's mountd client

After certain failure modes of an NFS mount, an NFS client should send
a MOUNTPROC_UMNT request to remove the just-added mount entry from the
server's mount table.  While no-one should rely on the accuracy of the
server's mount table, sending a UMNT is simply being a good internet
neighbor.

Since NFS mount processing is handled in the kernel now, we will need
a function in the kernel's mountd client that can post a MOUNTRPC_UMNT
request, in order to handle these failure modes.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/internal.h b/fs/nfs/internal.h
index 7dd90a6769d0..8d2b71d57d29 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/internal.h
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ struct nfs_mount_request {
 };
 
 extern int nfs_mount(struct nfs_mount_request *info);
+extern void nfs_umount(const struct nfs_mount_request *info);
 
 /* client.c */
 extern struct rpc_program nfs_program;