Hello, I look for advice regarding usage of these two function I mentioned. I'd like to be confident of that dentry - a member of structure path may be null for a while and mnt not. Can it happen during rcu_walk ? I reckon that it doesn't happen when lookup falls into ref_walk and legitimize_path() evaluates the dentry pointer. Is it mandatory to call path_get/put under fs->lock ? Are there other precautions I should know about ? Thanks, -- Krzysztof Blaszkowski