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From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: lookup_one_len() returning d_count == 0
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:40:04 -0400
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> My guess is that the dentry is being dput() twice somewhere, and so ends
> up with a d_count==-1. I'd suggest adding a
> BUG_ON(atomic_read(&dentry->d_count) <= 0) after the 'repeat:' label at
> the top of dput() in order to try to catch the culprit.
Thanks for the tip... that worked like a charm... 

steved.