This looks a lot better than the first iteration; thank you for getting it to this point. One last thing, I hope... On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 20:00 +0800, Yufen Yu wrote: > > --- a/fs/jffs2/jffs2_fs_i.h > +++ b/fs/jffs2/jffs2_fs_i.h > @@ -42,6 +42,12 @@ struct jffs2_inode_info { >         /* Directory entries */ >         struct jffs2_full_dirent *dents; >   > +       /* Directory open refcount */ > +       atomic_t nr_dir_opening; > + > +       /* obsolete dirent count in the list of 'dents' */ > +       unsigned int obsolete_count; > + >         /* The target path if this is the inode of a symlink */ >         unsigned char *target; >   You've made JFFS2_INVALID_LIMIT 64, which is reasonable enough (although it's a bit of a weird name and possibly wants to be more specific — invalid *what*?). So the maximum interesting value of ->obsolete_count is 64. Which means it might as well be a uint8_t and sit in the padding after the 'usercompr' field. It might be useful to look at putting the mutually exclusive fields in struct jffs2_inode_info into a union, and then we don't need the additional space of the atomic_t either; we'll never need that *and* the fragtree at the same time... will we?