nstantiate_filp() at all. ->d_revalidate() can return an error itself just fine... See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15674 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=126988782722711&w=2 for original report. Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ΅!3x