This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cifs: don't instantiate new dentries in readdir for inodes that need to be revalidated immediately to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cifs-don-t-instantiate-new-dentries-in-readdir-for-inodes-that-need-to-be-revalidated-immediately.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.