Here's a pair of patches: the first converts afs to use refcount_t instead of atomic_t for its refcounts; the second fixes a number of afs ref-putting functions to make sure they don't access the target object after the decrement unless the refcount was reduced to 0. The patches can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-fixes David --- David Howells (2): afs: Use refcount_t rather than atomic_t afs: Fix access after dec in put functions fs/afs/cell.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------- fs/afs/cmservice.c | 4 +-- fs/afs/internal.h | 16 +++++----- fs/afs/proc.c | 6 ++-- fs/afs/rxrpc.c | 31 ++++++++++--------- fs/afs/server.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++----------- fs/afs/vl_list.c | 19 ++++-------- fs/afs/volume.c | 21 ++++++++----- include/trace/events/afs.h | 36 +++++++++++----------- 9 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 116 deletions(-)