diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 646337dc5201e702227309cc17db99f96af99173..529300327f4574d2dc36345be3c7398442548e08 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -600,9 +600,6 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 
 	/* lock down the parent dentry so we can peer at it */
 	parent = dget_parent(dentry);
-	if (!parent->d_inode)
-		goto out_bad;
-
 	dir = AFS_FS_I(parent->d_inode);
 
 	/* validate the parent directory */
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
index ef999729e274ead1ed88c699ee86b8011fd5ff77..0d3a97d2d5f659caeb60f20f448ce25371036ff2 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
@@ -70,9 +70,10 @@ static int ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 	 */
 	if (inode == NULL) {
 		unsigned long gen = (unsigned long) dentry->d_fsdata;
-		unsigned long pgen =
-			OCFS2_I(dentry->d_parent->d_inode)->ip_dir_lock_gen;
-
+		unsigned long pgen;
+		spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+		pgen = OCFS2_I(dentry->d_parent->d_inode)->ip_dir_lock_gen;
+		spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
 		trace_ocfs2_dentry_revalidate_negative(dentry->d_name.len,
 						       dentry->d_name.name,
 						       pgen, gen);
diff --git a/fs/sysv/super.c b/fs/sysv/super.c
index d0c6a007ce835cf869fac695eb5445b34be6d814..eda10959714f2acad6ce5d9be82fffbe9426513b 100644
--- a/fs/sysv/super.c
+++ b/fs/sysv/super.c
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ static int v7_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	sbi->s_sb = sb;
 	sbi->s_block_base = 0;
 	sbi->s_type = FSTYPE_V7;
+	mutex_init(&sbi->s_lock);
 	sb->s_fs_info = sbi;
 	
 	sb_set_blocksize(sb, 512);