diff --git a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c
index 48cfac31f64ce2b3679362b91f324ff9afc4e262..848660fd58c47b1b928df902f25fdafca9030954 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.c
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("The NFSv4.1 pNFS Block layout driver");
 
-struct dentry *bl_device_pipe;
+struct rpc_pipe *bl_device_pipe;
 wait_queue_head_t bl_wq;
 
 static void print_page(struct page *page)
@@ -1051,16 +1051,23 @@ static int __init nfs4blocklayout_init(void)
 	if (ret)
 		goto out_putrpc;
 
-	bl_device_pipe = rpc_mkpipe(path.dentry, "blocklayout", NULL,
-				    &bl_upcall_ops, 0);
+	bl_device_pipe = rpc_mkpipe_data(&bl_upcall_ops, 0);
 	path_put(&path);
 	if (IS_ERR(bl_device_pipe)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(bl_device_pipe);
 		goto out_putrpc;
 	}
+	bl_device_pipe->dentry = rpc_mkpipe_dentry(path.dentry, "blocklayout",
+						   NULL, bl_device_pipe);
+	if (IS_ERR(bl_device_pipe->dentry)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(bl_device_pipe->dentry);
+		goto out_destroy_pipe;
+	}
 out:
 	return ret;
 
+out_destroy_pipe:
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(bl_device_pipe);
 out_putrpc:
 	rpc_put_mount();
 out_remove:
@@ -1074,7 +1081,8 @@ static void __exit nfs4blocklayout_exit(void)
 	       __func__);
 
 	pnfs_unregister_layoutdriver(&blocklayout_type);
-	rpc_unlink(bl_device_pipe);
+	rpc_unlink(bl_device_pipe->dentry);
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(bl_device_pipe);
 	rpc_put_mount();
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h
index e31a2df28e70aca040560b8d94403d85d67cd170..49c670b18a9e4d4ca7e928857221729e7f211a12 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h
+++ b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ struct bl_msg_hdr {
 	u16 totallen; /* length of entire message, including hdr itself */
 };
 
-extern struct dentry *bl_device_pipe;
+extern struct rpc_pipe *bl_device_pipe;
 extern wait_queue_head_t bl_wq;
 
 #define BL_DEVICE_UMOUNT               0x0 /* Umount--delete devices */
diff --git a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdev.c b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdev.c
index 81019190e46d80ccd43d50f659292842225c0909..949b62478799d6c4c7a159b2afe67a40433aa9a9 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdev.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdev.c
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ nfs4_blk_decode_device(struct nfs_server *server,
 
 	dprintk("%s CALLING USERSPACE DAEMON\n", __func__);
 	add_wait_queue(&bl_wq, &wq);
-	rc = rpc_queue_upcall(RPC_I(bl_device_pipe->d_inode)->pipe, &msg);
+	rc = rpc_queue_upcall(bl_device_pipe, &msg);
 	if (rc < 0) {
 		remove_wait_queue(&bl_wq, &wq);
 		rv = ERR_PTR(rc);
diff --git a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdm.c b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdm.c
index 3c38244a87248e52169de269fed116d25a950c95..631f254d12abf85cd802faf55d13a72f999a28c6 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdm.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayoutdm.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static void dev_remove(dev_t dev)
 	msg.len = sizeof(bl_msg) + bl_msg.totallen;
 
 	add_wait_queue(&bl_wq, &wq);
-	if (rpc_queue_upcall(RPC_I(bl_device_pipe->d_inode)->pipe, &msg) < 0) {
+	if (rpc_queue_upcall(bl_device_pipe, &msg) < 0) {
 		remove_wait_queue(&bl_wq, &wq);
 		goto out;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/nfs/idmap.c b/fs/nfs/idmap.c
index 3c63c47c793d48df0a89788e75d85b53bad7ec80..2992cb854e12e1a6d843bafa23e145e50143d185 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/idmap.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/idmap.c
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ struct idmap_hashtable {
 };
 
 struct idmap {
-	struct dentry		*idmap_dentry;
+	struct rpc_pipe		*idmap_pipe;
 	wait_queue_head_t	idmap_wq;
 	struct idmap_msg	idmap_im;
 	struct mutex		idmap_lock;	/* Serializes upcalls */
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ int
 nfs_idmap_new(struct nfs_client *clp)
 {
 	struct idmap *idmap;
+	struct rpc_pipe *pipe;
 	int error;
 
 	BUG_ON(clp->cl_idmap != NULL);
@@ -443,14 +444,23 @@ nfs_idmap_new(struct nfs_client *clp)
 	if (idmap == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	idmap->idmap_dentry = rpc_mkpipe(clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_path.dentry,
-			"idmap", idmap, &idmap_upcall_ops, 0);
-	if (IS_ERR(idmap->idmap_dentry)) {
-		error = PTR_ERR(idmap->idmap_dentry);
+	pipe = rpc_mkpipe_data(&idmap_upcall_ops, 0);
+	if (IS_ERR(pipe)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(pipe);
 		kfree(idmap);
 		return error;
 	}
 
+	if (clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_path.dentry)
+		pipe->dentry = rpc_mkpipe_dentry(clp->cl_rpcclient->cl_path.dentry,
+				"idmap", idmap, pipe);
+	if (IS_ERR(pipe->dentry)) {
+		error = PTR_ERR(pipe->dentry);
+		rpc_destroy_pipe_data(pipe);
+		kfree(idmap);
+		return error;
+	}
+	idmap->idmap_pipe = pipe;
 	mutex_init(&idmap->idmap_lock);
 	mutex_init(&idmap->idmap_im_lock);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&idmap->idmap_wq);
@@ -468,7 +478,9 @@ nfs_idmap_delete(struct nfs_client *clp)
 
 	if (!idmap)
 		return;
-	rpc_unlink(idmap->idmap_dentry);
+	if (idmap->idmap_pipe->dentry)
+		rpc_unlink(idmap->idmap_pipe->dentry);
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(idmap->idmap_pipe);
 	clp->cl_idmap = NULL;
 	kfree(idmap);
 }
@@ -589,7 +601,7 @@ nfs_idmap_id(struct idmap *idmap, struct idmap_hashtable *h,
 	msg.len = sizeof(*im);
 
 	add_wait_queue(&idmap->idmap_wq, &wq);
-	if (rpc_queue_upcall(RPC_I(idmap->idmap_dentry->d_inode)->pipe, &msg) < 0) {
+	if (rpc_queue_upcall(idmap->idmap_pipe, &msg) < 0) {
 		remove_wait_queue(&idmap->idmap_wq, &wq);
 		goto out;
 	}
@@ -650,7 +662,7 @@ nfs_idmap_name(struct idmap *idmap, struct idmap_hashtable *h,
 
 	add_wait_queue(&idmap->idmap_wq, &wq);
 
-	if (rpc_queue_upcall(RPC_I(idmap->idmap_dentry->d_inode)->pipe, &msg) < 0) {
+	if (rpc_queue_upcall(idmap->idmap_pipe, &msg) < 0) {
 		remove_wait_queue(&idmap->idmap_wq, &wq);
 		goto out;
 	}
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h
index 3ebc257e2b43ec48d808f0161f28069dfeef3fb9..0d1f748f76dada94002831b127f2748b4a0fb920 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/rpc_pipe_fs.h
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ struct rpc_pipe {
 	struct delayed_work queue_timeout;
 	const struct rpc_pipe_ops *ops;
 	spinlock_t lock;
+	struct dentry *dentry;
 };
 
 struct rpc_inode {
@@ -77,8 +78,10 @@ extern struct dentry *rpc_create_cache_dir(struct dentry *,
 					   struct cache_detail *);
 extern void rpc_remove_cache_dir(struct dentry *);
 
-extern struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe(struct dentry *, const char *, void *,
-				 const struct rpc_pipe_ops *, int flags);
+struct rpc_pipe *rpc_mkpipe_data(const struct rpc_pipe_ops *ops, int flags);
+void rpc_destroy_pipe_data(struct rpc_pipe *pipe);
+extern struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe_dentry(struct dentry *, const char *, void *,
+					struct rpc_pipe *);
 extern int rpc_unlink(struct dentry *);
 extern struct vfsmount *rpc_get_mount(void);
 extern void rpc_put_mount(void);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
index 304b8309f217856ff5946ff7f279be88869b224e..f684ce606667bf9697c872a0fc7ce57a97ce628e 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ struct gss_auth {
 	 * mechanism (for example, "krb5") and exists for
 	 * backwards-compatibility with older gssd's.
 	 */
-	struct dentry *dentry[2];
+	struct rpc_pipe *pipe[2];
 };
 
 /* pipe_version >= 0 if and only if someone has a pipe open. */
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ gss_alloc_msg(struct gss_auth *gss_auth, struct rpc_clnt *clnt,
 		kfree(gss_msg);
 		return ERR_PTR(vers);
 	}
-	gss_msg->pipe = RPC_I(gss_auth->dentry[vers]->d_inode)->pipe;
+	gss_msg->pipe = gss_auth->pipe[vers];
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&gss_msg->list);
 	rpc_init_wait_queue(&gss_msg->rpc_waitqueue, "RPCSEC_GSS upcall waitq");
 	init_waitqueue_head(&gss_msg->waitqueue);
@@ -799,21 +799,33 @@ gss_create(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, rpc_authflavor_t flavor)
 	 * that we supported only the old pipe.  So we instead create
 	 * the new pipe first.
 	 */
-	gss_auth->dentry[1] = rpc_mkpipe(clnt->cl_path.dentry,
-					 "gssd",
-					 clnt, &gss_upcall_ops_v1,
-					 RPC_PIPE_WAIT_FOR_OPEN);
-	if (IS_ERR(gss_auth->dentry[1])) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(gss_auth->dentry[1]);
+	gss_auth->pipe[1] = rpc_mkpipe_data(&gss_upcall_ops_v1,
+					    RPC_PIPE_WAIT_FOR_OPEN);
+	if (IS_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[1])) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[1]);
 		goto err_put_mech;
 	}
 
-	gss_auth->dentry[0] = rpc_mkpipe(clnt->cl_path.dentry,
-					 gss_auth->mech->gm_name,
-					 clnt, &gss_upcall_ops_v0,
-					 RPC_PIPE_WAIT_FOR_OPEN);
-	if (IS_ERR(gss_auth->dentry[0])) {
-		err = PTR_ERR(gss_auth->dentry[0]);
+	gss_auth->pipe[0] = rpc_mkpipe_data(&gss_upcall_ops_v0,
+					    RPC_PIPE_WAIT_FOR_OPEN);
+	if (IS_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[0])) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[0]);
+		goto err_destroy_pipe_1;
+	}
+
+	gss_auth->pipe[1]->dentry = rpc_mkpipe_dentry(clnt->cl_path.dentry,
+						      "gssd",
+						      clnt, gss_auth->pipe[1]);
+	if (IS_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[1]->dentry)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[1]->dentry);
+		goto err_destroy_pipe_0;
+	}
+
+	gss_auth->pipe[0]->dentry = rpc_mkpipe_dentry(clnt->cl_path.dentry,
+						      gss_auth->mech->gm_name,
+						      clnt, gss_auth->pipe[0]);
+	if (IS_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[0]->dentry)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(gss_auth->pipe[0]->dentry);
 		goto err_unlink_pipe_1;
 	}
 	err = rpcauth_init_credcache(auth);
@@ -822,9 +834,13 @@ gss_create(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, rpc_authflavor_t flavor)
 
 	return auth;
 err_unlink_pipe_0:
-	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->dentry[0]);
+	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->pipe[0]->dentry);
 err_unlink_pipe_1:
-	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->dentry[1]);
+	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->pipe[1]->dentry);
+err_destroy_pipe_0:
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(gss_auth->pipe[0]);
+err_destroy_pipe_1:
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(gss_auth->pipe[1]);
 err_put_mech:
 	gss_mech_put(gss_auth->mech);
 err_free:
@@ -837,8 +853,10 @@ gss_create(struct rpc_clnt *clnt, rpc_authflavor_t flavor)
 static void
 gss_free(struct gss_auth *gss_auth)
 {
-	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->dentry[1]);
-	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->dentry[0]);
+	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->pipe[0]->dentry);
+	rpc_unlink(gss_auth->pipe[1]->dentry);
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(gss_auth->pipe[0]);
+	rpc_destroy_pipe_data(gss_auth->pipe[1]);
 	gss_mech_put(gss_auth->mech);
 
 	kfree(gss_auth);
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
index 4093da79d5123c5e643456f54524759d22fd0496..6dd8b96e8df75e7c75c9571c017b22e15507d513 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c
@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ static void
 rpc_i_callback(struct rcu_head *head)
 {
 	struct inode *inode = container_of(head, struct inode, i_rcu);
-	kfree(RPC_I(inode)->pipe);
 	kmem_cache_free(rpc_inode_cachep, RPC_I(inode));
 }
 
@@ -575,34 +574,44 @@ init_pipe(struct rpc_pipe *pipe)
 			    rpc_timeout_upcall_queue);
 	pipe->ops = NULL;
 	spin_lock_init(&pipe->lock);
+	pipe->dentry = NULL;
+}
 
+void rpc_destroy_pipe_data(struct rpc_pipe *pipe)
+{
+	kfree(pipe);
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_destroy_pipe_data);
 
-static int __rpc_mkpipe(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
-			umode_t mode,
-			const struct file_operations *i_fop,
-			void *private,
-			const struct rpc_pipe_ops *ops,
-			int flags)
+struct rpc_pipe *rpc_mkpipe_data(const struct rpc_pipe_ops *ops, int flags)
 {
 	struct rpc_pipe *pipe;
-	struct rpc_inode *rpci;
-	int err;
 
 	pipe = kzalloc(sizeof(struct rpc_pipe), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!pipe)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	init_pipe(pipe);
+	pipe->ops = ops;
+	pipe->flags = flags;
+	return pipe;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_mkpipe_data);
+
+static int __rpc_mkpipe_dentry(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
+			       umode_t mode,
+			       const struct file_operations *i_fop,
+			       void *private,
+			       struct rpc_pipe *pipe)
+{
+	struct rpc_inode *rpci;
+	int err;
+
 	err = __rpc_create_common(dir, dentry, S_IFIFO | mode, i_fop, private);
-	if (err) {
-		kfree(pipe);
+	if (err)
 		return err;
-	}
 	rpci = RPC_I(dentry->d_inode);
 	rpci->private = private;
 	rpci->pipe = pipe;
-	rpci->pipe->flags = flags;
-	rpci->pipe->ops = ops;
 	fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -819,9 +828,8 @@ static int rpc_rmdir_depopulate(struct dentry *dentry,
  * The @private argument passed here will be available to all these methods
  * from the file pointer, via RPC_I(file->f_dentry->d_inode)->private.
  */
-struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
-			  void *private, const struct rpc_pipe_ops *ops,
-			  int flags)
+struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe_dentry(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
+				 void *private, struct rpc_pipe *pipe)
 {
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct inode *dir = parent->d_inode;
@@ -829,9 +837,9 @@ struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
 	struct qstr q;
 	int err;
 
-	if (ops->upcall == NULL)
+	if (pipe->ops->upcall == NULL)
 		umode &= ~S_IRUGO;
-	if (ops->downcall == NULL)
+	if (pipe->ops->downcall == NULL)
 		umode &= ~S_IWUGO;
 
 	q.name = name;
@@ -842,8 +850,8 @@ struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
 	dentry = __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive(parent, &q);
 	if (IS_ERR(dentry))
 		goto out;
-	err = __rpc_mkpipe(dir, dentry, umode, &rpc_pipe_fops,
-			   private, ops, flags);
+	err = __rpc_mkpipe_dentry(dir, dentry, umode, &rpc_pipe_fops,
+				  private, pipe);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_err;
 out:
@@ -856,7 +864,7 @@ struct dentry *rpc_mkpipe(struct dentry *parent, const char *name,
 			err);
 	goto out;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_mkpipe);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rpc_mkpipe_dentry);
 
 /**
  * rpc_unlink - remove a pipe