Accessing d_parent requires some sort of locking or it could vanish out from under us. Since we take the d_lock anyway, use that to fetch d_parent and take a reference to it, and then use that reference to call ceph_encode_inode_release. Link: http://tracker.ceph.com/issues/18148 Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/caps.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/caps.c b/fs/ceph/caps.c index 16e6ded0b7f2..6bc5c1efbb26 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/caps.c +++ b/fs/ceph/caps.c @@ -3834,7 +3834,7 @@ int ceph_encode_inode_release(void **p, struct inode *inode, int ceph_encode_dentry_release(void **p, struct dentry *dentry, int mds, int drop, int unless) { - struct inode *dir = d_inode(dentry->d_parent); + struct dentry *parent; struct ceph_mds_request_release *rel = *p; struct ceph_dentry_info *di = ceph_dentry(dentry); int force = 0; @@ -3849,9 +3849,12 @@ int ceph_encode_dentry_release(void **p, struct dentry *dentry, spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); if (di->lease_session && di->lease_session->s_mds == mds) force = 1; + parent = dget(dentry->d_parent); spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); - ret = ceph_encode_inode_release(p, dir, mds, drop, unless, force); + ret = ceph_encode_inode_release(p, d_inode(parent), mds, drop, + unless, force); + dput(parent); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); if (ret && di->lease_session && di->lease_session->s_mds == mds) { -- 2.7.4 -- 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