diff -urN linux-2.4.19-pre3/fs/namei.c linux-/fs/namei.c
--- linux-2.4.19-pre3/fs/namei.c	Wed Mar 20 14:03:50 2002
+++ linux/fs/namei.c	Wed Mar 20 14:04:40 2002
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
 	while (*name=='/')
 		name++;
 	if (!*name)
+		goto return_base;
-		goto return_reval;
 
 	inode = nd->dentry->d_inode;
 	if (current->link_count)
@@ -576,7 +576,7 @@
 				inode = nd->dentry->d_inode;
 				/* fallthrough */
 			case 1:
+				goto return_base;
-				goto return_reval;
 		}
 		if (nd->dentry->d_op && nd->dentry->d_op->d_hash) {
 			err = nd->dentry->d_op->d_hash(nd->dentry, &this);
@@ -627,19 +627,6 @@
 			nd->last_type = LAST_DOT;
 		else if (this.len == 2 && this.name[1] == '.')
 			nd->last_type = LAST_DOTDOT;
-return_reval:
-		/*
-		 * We bypassed the ordinary revalidation routines.
-		 * Check the cached dentry for staleness.
-		 */
-		dentry = nd->dentry;
-		if (dentry && dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
-			err = -ESTALE;
-			if (!dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, 0)) {
-				d_invalidate(dentry);
-				break;
-			}
-		}
 return_base:
 		return 0;
 out_dput: