We only search in the damn thing under hlist_bl_lock(); RCU variant of insertion was, IIRC, pretty much cargo-culted - mea culpa... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 440b46851f52..51e2f777a2c5 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2690,7 +2690,7 @@ struct dentry *d_alloc_parallel(struct dentry *parent, /* we can't take ->d_lock here; it's OK, though. */ new->d_flags |= DCACHE_PAR_LOOKUP; new->d_wait = wq; - hlist_bl_add_head_rcu(&new->d_u.d_in_lookup_hash, b); + hlist_bl_add_head(&new->d_u.d_in_lookup_hash, b); hlist_bl_unlock(b); return new; mismatch: -- 2.39.2