Grabbing the UNIONFS_D(dentry)->lock is completely unnecessary and there are no other references; we are about to free the object anyway. Additionally, grabbing the mutex produces warning when the slab object is reused - as it was freed while there still was a reference to it. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/unionfs/dentry.c | 6 ------ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c index 3721409..ac4bf0e 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c @@ -190,12 +190,6 @@ static void unionfs_d_release(struct dentry *dentry) { int bindex, bstart, bend; - /* There is no reason to lock the dentry, because we have the only - * reference, but the printing functions verify that we have a lock - * on the dentry before calling dbstart, etc. - */ - unionfs_lock_dentry(dentry); - /* this could be a negative dentry, so check first */ if (!UNIONFS_D(dentry)) { printk(KERN_DEBUG "dentry without private data: %.*s", -- 1.5.0.2.260.g2eb065 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html