hypfs_last_dentry = dentry;
 }
 
+static inline int hypfs_positive(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+       return dentry->d_inode && !d_unhashed(dentry);
+}
+
 static void hypfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
        struct dentry *parent;
 
        parent = dentry->d_parent;
-       if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
-               simple_rmdir(parent->d_inode, dentry);
-       else
-               simple_unlink(parent->d_inode, dentry);
+       if (!parent || !parent->d_inode)
+               return;
+       mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
+       if (hypfs_positive(dentry)) {
+               if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+                       simple_rmdir(parent->d_inode, dentry);
+               else
+                       simple_unlink(parent->d_inode, dentry);
+       }
        d_delete(dentry);
        dput(dentry);
+       mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
 }
 
 static void hypfs_delete_tree(struct dentry *root)
        }
        hypfs_update_update(sb);
        sb->s_root = root_dentry;
+       printk(KERN_INFO "hypfs: Hypervisor filesystem mounted\n");
        return 0;
 
 err_tree:
        qname.name = name;
        qname.len = strlen(name);
        qname.hash = full_name_hash(name, qname.len);
+       mutex_lock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
        dentry = lookup_one_len(name, parent, strlen(name));
-       if (IS_ERR(dentry))
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+       if (IS_ERR(dentry)) {
+               dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+               goto fail;
+       }
        inode = hypfs_make_inode(sb, mode);
        if (!inode) {
                dput(dentry);
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+               dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+               goto fail;
        }
        if (mode & S_IFREG) {
                inode->i_fop = &hypfs_file_ops;
        inode->i_private = data;
        d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
        dget(dentry);
+fail:
+       mutex_unlock(&parent->d_inode->i_mutex);
        return dentry;
 }
 
        if (IS_ERR(dentry))
                return dentry;
        hypfs_add_dentry(dentry);
-       parent->d_inode->i_nlink++;
        return dentry;
 }