From: Vasily Averin d_count check after dget() is always true. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 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) _