diff --git a/fs/nfsd/lockd.c b/fs/nfsd/lockd.c
index 0c6d81670137..7c831a2731fa 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/lockd.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/lockd.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ nlm_fopen(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfs_fh *f, struct file **filp)
 	exp_readlock();
 	nfserr = nfsd_open(rqstp, &fh, S_IFREG, NFSD_MAY_LOCK, filp);
 	fh_put(&fh);
-	rqstp->rq_client = NULL;
 	exp_readunlock();
  	/* We return nlm error codes as nlm doesn't know
 	 * about nfsd, but nfsd does know about nlm..
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 4b36ec3eb8ea..aa309aa93fe8 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -397,10 +397,13 @@ static void unhash_generic_stateid(struct nfs4_stateid *stp)
 
 static void free_generic_stateid(struct nfs4_stateid *stp)
 {
-	int oflag = nfs4_access_bmap_to_omode(stp);
+	int oflag;
 
-	nfs4_file_put_access(stp->st_file, oflag);
-	put_nfs4_file(stp->st_file);
+	if (stp->st_access_bmap) {
+		oflag = nfs4_access_bmap_to_omode(stp);
+		nfs4_file_put_access(stp->st_file, oflag);
+		put_nfs4_file(stp->st_file);
+	}
 	kmem_cache_free(stateid_slab, stp);
 }