The Coverity checker spotted the following incorrect part of commit 94bebf4d1b8e7719f0f3944c037a21cfd99a4af7:
<-- snip --> ... void sysfs_drop_dentry(struct sysfs_dirent * sd, struct dentry * parent) { struct dentry * dentry = sd->s_dentry; + struct inode *inode; if (dentry) { spin_lock(&dcache_lock); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); if (!(d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode)) { + inode = dentry->d_inode; + spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); ... <-- snip --> If (!dentry->d_inode), then it's a NULL dereference. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/