->fl_change(my_before, arg); lease_modify(); locks_free_lock(); /* and we freed it */ ... unlock_kernel(); locks_insert_lock(before, fl); /* OOPS! We have just tried to add the lease * at the tail of already removed one */ The similar races are already handled in other code - all the allocations are performed before any checks/updates. Thanks to Kamalesh Babulal for testing and for a bug report on an earlier version. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Cc: Kamalesh Babulal CO