diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index dcfc66bab2bb16f9872aca4adc6b258b55afe05a..12c4859828146cbdff7a0e9c38a039eaa3395426 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -745,17 +745,18 @@ gss_pipe_release(struct inode *inode)
 	struct rpc_inode *rpci = RPC_I(inode);
 	struct gss_upcall_msg *gss_msg;
 
+restart:
 	spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-	while (!list_empty(&rpci->in_downcall)) {
+	list_for_each_entry(gss_msg, &rpci->in_downcall, list) {
 
-		gss_msg = list_entry(rpci->in_downcall.next,
-				struct gss_upcall_msg, list);
+		if (!list_empty(&gss_msg->msg.list))
+			continue;
 		gss_msg->msg.errno = -EPIPE;
 		atomic_inc(&gss_msg->count);
 		__gss_unhash_msg(gss_msg);
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 		gss_release_msg(gss_msg);
-		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
+		goto restart;
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
index 95ccbcf45d3eb64c6ee84c4767c85e7c5a9ee694..41a762f8263051c766b5a7cdc112f4d4ff7fb298 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ static void rpc_purge_list(struct rpc_inode *rpci, struct list_head *head,
 		return;
 	do {
 		msg = list_entry(head->next, struct rpc_pipe_msg, list);
-		list_del(&msg->list);
+		list_del_init(&msg->list);
 		msg->errno = err;
 		destroy_msg(msg);
 	} while (!list_empty(head));
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ rpc_pipe_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 	if (msg != NULL) {
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
 		msg->errno = -EAGAIN;
-		list_del(&msg->list);
+		list_del_init(&msg->list);
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 		rpci->ops->destroy_msg(msg);
 	}
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ rpc_pipe_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t len, loff_t *offset)
 	if (res < 0 || msg->len == msg->copied) {
 		filp->private_data = NULL;
 		spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
-		list_del(&msg->list);
+		list_del_init(&msg->list);
 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
 		rpci->ops->destroy_msg(msg);
 	}