In two error cases affs_remove_link doesn't call affs_unlock_dir to release the i_hash_lock semaphore. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/fs/affs/amigaffs.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/affs/amigaffs.c 2008-04-29 17:15:30.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/affs/amigaffs.c 2008-04-29 17:16:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -179,14 +179,18 @@ affs_remove_link(struct dentry *dentry) affs_lock_dir(dir); affs_fix_dcache(dentry, link_ino); retval = affs_remove_hash(dir, link_bh); - if (retval) + if (retval) { + affs_unlock_dir(dir); goto done; + } mark_buffer_dirty_inode(link_bh, inode); memcpy(AFFS_TAIL(sb, bh)->name, AFFS_TAIL(sb, link_bh)->name, 32); retval = affs_insert_hash(dir, bh); - if (retval) + if (retval) { + affs_unlock_dir(dir); goto done; + } mark_buffer_dirty_inode(bh, inode); affs_unlock_dir(dir); -- 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