diff -aurpN -X /home/fletch/.diff.exclude 410-topdown/fs/sysfs/dir.c 420-sysfs_vs_dcache/fs/sysfs/dir.c
--- 410-topdown/fs/sysfs/dir.c	Mon Nov 17 18:28:56 2003
+++ 420-sysfs_vs_dcache/fs/sysfs/dir.c	Thu Jan  1 23:23:34 2004
@@ -122,8 +122,8 @@ void sysfs_remove_dir(struct kobject * k
 	node = dentry->d_subdirs.next;
 	while (node != &dentry->d_subdirs) {
 		struct dentry * d = list_entry(node,struct dentry,d_child);
-		list_del_init(node);
 
+		node = node->next;
 		pr_debug(" o %s (%d): ",d->d_name.name,atomic_read(&d->d_count));
 		if (d->d_inode) {
 			d = dget_locked(d);
@@ -139,9 +139,7 @@ void sysfs_remove_dir(struct kobject * k
 			spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
 		}
 		pr_debug(" done\n");
-		node = dentry->d_subdirs.next;
 	}
-	list_del_init(&dentry->d_child);
 	spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
 	up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);