diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 2391ab3c3231..84d4093ca713 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -3042,12 +3042,9 @@ static void
 nfsd4_cb_recall_any_release(struct nfsd4_callback *cb)
 {
 	struct nfs4_client *clp = cb->cb_clp;
-	struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(clp->net, nfsd_net_id);
 
-	spin_lock(&nn->client_lock);
 	clear_bit(NFSD4_CLIENT_CB_RECALL_ANY, &clp->cl_flags);
-	put_client_renew_locked(clp);
-	spin_unlock(&nn->client_lock);
+	drop_client(clp);
 }
 
 static int
@@ -6616,7 +6613,7 @@ deleg_reaper(struct nfsd_net *nn)
 		list_add(&clp->cl_ra_cblist, &cblist);
 
 		/* release in nfsd4_cb_recall_any_release */
-		atomic_inc(&clp->cl_rpc_users);
+		kref_get(&clp->cl_nfsdfs.cl_ref);
 		set_bit(NFSD4_CLIENT_CB_RECALL_ANY, &clp->cl_flags);
 		clp->cl_ra_time = ktime_get_boottime_seconds();
 	}
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
index 545017a3daa4..6b3f01beb294 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
@@ -1206,15 +1206,6 @@ err_noclose:
  * MSG_SPLICE_PAGES is used exclusively to reduce the number of
  * copy operations in this path. Therefore the caller must ensure
  * that the pages backing @xdr are unchanging.
- *
- * Note that the send is non-blocking. The caller has incremented
- * the reference count on each page backing the RPC message, and
- * the network layer will "put" these pages when transmission is
- * complete.
- *
- * This is safe for our RPC services because the memory backing
- * the head and tail components is never kmalloc'd. These always
- * come from pages in the svc_rqst::rq_pages array.
  */
 static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
 			   rpc_fraghdr marker, unsigned int *sentp)
@@ -1244,6 +1235,7 @@ static int svc_tcp_sendmsg(struct svc_sock *svsk, struct svc_rqst *rqstp,
 	iov_iter_bvec(&msg.msg_iter, ITER_SOURCE, rqstp->rq_bvec,
 		      1 + count, sizeof(marker) + rqstp->rq_res.len);
 	ret = sock_sendmsg(svsk->sk_sock, &msg);
+	page_frag_free(buf);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		return ret;
 	*sentp += ret;