nfs: fix UAF on pathwalk running into umount
NFS ->d_revalidate(), ->permission() and ->get_link() need to access some parts of nfs_server when called in RCU mode: server->flags server->caps *(server->io_stats) and, worst of all, call server->nfs_client->rpc_ops->have_delegation (the last one - as NFS_PROTO(inode)->have_delegation()). We really don't want to RCU-delay the entire nfs_free_server() (it would have to be done with schedule_work() from RCU callback, since it can't be made to run from interrupt context), but actual freeing of nfs_server and ->io_stats can be done via call_rcu() just fine. nfs_client part is handled simply by making nfs_free_client() use kfree_rcu(). Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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