Hello, This patch fixes the error that Loulwa reported was hanging her system. What was happening was that audit_dentry_unpin was being called under the protection of the same spinlocks it was trying to hold itself (via the dput() it was calling). To fix this, I moved audit_dentry_unpin outside of the spinlocks where it belonged in the first place. -tim --- fs/dcache.c 2005-05-17 13:59:32.968013816 -0500 +++ ../../kernel-2.6.9~working/linux-2.6.9/fs/dcache.c 2005-05-17 13:43:09.000000000 -0500 @@ -1109,13 +1109,15 @@ out: void d_delete(struct dentry * dentry) { + audit_dentry_unpin(dentry); + /* * Are we the only user? */ + spin_lock(&dcache_lock); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); - audit_dentry_unpin(dentry); if (atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) == 1) { dentry_iput(dentry); -tim