From: madiraju <madiraju.santosh@xxxxxxxxx> While shrinking the dentry list in shrink_dentry_list function, if DCACHE_MAY_FREE flag is set, it frees the dentry, and it again tries to do it in dentry_kill. Signed-off-by: Santosh Madiraju <madiraju.santosh@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/dcache.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 92d5140..7aa2252 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -986,8 +986,8 @@ static void shrink_dentry_list(struct list_head *list) spin_unlock(&parent->d_lock); continue; } - - __dentry_kill(dentry); + if (dentry) + __dentry_kill(dentry); /* * We need to prune ancestors too. This is necessary to prevent -- 1.9.1 -- 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