[PATCH 5/6] 2.4.19-rc1 rpc_call_sync() stack reduction patch

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- linux-2.4.29-rc1.org/net/sunrpc/clnt.c	2003-11-28 10:26:21.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.4.29-rc1/net/sunrpc/clnt.c	2005-01-09 23:08:31.000000000 -0800
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ void rpc_clnt_sigunmask(struct rpc_clnt 
  */
 int rpc_call_sync(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, struct rpc_message *msg, int flags)
 {
-	struct rpc_task	my_task, *task = &my_task;
+	struct rpc_task	*task;
 	sigset_t	oldset;
 	int		status;
 
@@ -253,8 +253,11 @@ int rpc_call_sync(struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 
 	rpc_clnt_sigmask(clnt, &oldset);		
 
-	/* Create/initialize a new RPC task */
-	rpc_init_task(task, clnt, NULL, flags);
+	status = -ENOMEM;
+	task = rpc_new_task(clnt, NULL, flags);
+	if (task == NULL)
+		goto out;
+
 	rpc_call_setup(task, msg, 0);
 
 	/* Set up the call info struct and execute the task */
@@ -265,6 +268,7 @@ int rpc_call_sync(struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 		rpc_release_task(task);
 	}
 
+out:
 	rpc_clnt_sigunmask(clnt, &oldset);		
 
 	return status;