The patch titled VFS: extra check inside dentry_unhash() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is vfs-extra-check-inside-dentry_unhash.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: VFS: extra check inside dentry_unhash() From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxx> d_count check after dget() is always true. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/namei.c~vfs-extra-check-inside-dentry_unhash fs/namei.c --- a/fs/namei.c~vfs-extra-check-inside-dentry_unhash +++ a/fs/namei.c @@ -1998,8 +1998,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_mkdir(const char __u void dentry_unhash(struct dentry *dentry) { dget(dentry); - if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count)) - shrink_dcache_parent(dentry); + shrink_dcache_parent(dentry); spin_lock(&dcache_lock); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 2) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vvs@xxxxx are vfs-bkl-is-not-required-for-remount_fs.patch vfs-extra-check-inside-dentry_unhash.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html