Hi Linus, On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 08:25:06 -0700 Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 1:12 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > I don't know if it is safe to read d_lockref.count without locking > > That's not the issue. Since commit 84d08fa888e7 ("helper for reading > ->d_count") non-core VFS code shouldn't try to access d_count directly > at all. So instead of "dentry->d_count" it should use > "d_count(dentry)". Then the code doesn't need to know about lockrefs > or anything like that at all. Thanks for that. I will implement that temporary fix in linux-next today unless Andrew has been busy over the weekend. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au