nfs_unlink() calls d_delete() twice if it receives ENOENT from the server - once in nfs_dentry_handle_enoent() from nfs_safe_remove and once in nfs_dentry_remove_handle_error(). nfs_rmddir() also calls it twice - the nfs_dentry_handle_enoent() call is direct and inside a region locked with ->rmdir_sem It is safe to call d_delete() twice if the refcount > 1 as the dentry is simply unhashed. If the refcount is 1, the first call sets d_inode to NULL and the second call crashes. Refcount is almost always 1 in nfs_unlink() so this must almost never happen else we would have seen crashes before. This patch removes the d_delete() call from nfs_dentry_handle_enoent() so as to leave the one under ->remdir_sem in case that is important. Fixes: 9019fb391de0 ("NFS: Label the dentry with a verifier in nfs_rmdir() and nfs_unlink()") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index dbab3caa15ed..4648b421025c 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -2382,7 +2382,6 @@ static void nfs_dentry_remove_handle_error(struct inode *dir, { switch (error) { case -ENOENT: - d_delete(dentry); nfs_set_verifier(dentry, nfs_save_change_attribute(dir)); break; case 0: -- 2.37.1