diff -rup -X dontdiff linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c linux.patched/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
--- linux/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	Wed Oct 31 02:11:34 2001
+++ linux.patched/fs/reiserfs/inode.c	Mon Nov 26 15:27:09 2001
@@ -1138,6 +1138,30 @@ void reiserfs_read_inode2 (struct inode 
     }
 
     init_inode (inode, &path_to_sd);
+   
+    /* It is possible that knfsd is trying to access inode of a file
+       that is being removed from the disk by some other thread. As we
+       update sd on unlink all that is required is to check for nlink
+       here. This bug was first found by Sizif when debugging
+       SquidNG/Butterfly, forgotten, and found again after Philippe
+       Gramoulle <philippe.gramoulle@mmania.com> reproduced it. 
+
+       More logical fix would require changes in fs/inode.c:iput() to
+       remove inode from hash-table _after_ fs cleaned disk stuff up and
+       in iget() to return NULL if I_FREEING inode is found in
+       hash-table. */
+    /* Currently there is one place where it's ok to meet inode with
+       nlink==0: processing of open-unlinked and half-truncated files
+       during mount (fs/reiserfs/super.c:finish_unfinished()). */
+    if( ( inode -> i_nlink == 0 ) && 
+	! inode -> i_sb -> u.reiserfs_sb.s_is_unlinked_ok ) {
+	    reiserfs_warning( "vs-13075: reiserfs_read_inode2: "
+			      "dead inode read from disk %K. "
+			      "This is likely to be race with knfsd. Ignore\n", 
+			      &key );
+	    make_bad_inode( inode );
+    }
+
     reiserfs_check_path(&path_to_sd) ; /* init inode should be relsing */
 
 }
diff -rup -X dontdiff linux/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h linux.patched/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h
--- linux/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h	Thu Nov 22 22:46:19 2001
+++ linux.patched/include/linux/reiserfs_fs_sb.h	Mon Nov 26 15:22:44 2001
@@ -420,6 +420,10 @@ struct reiserfs_sb_info
     int s_bmaps_without_search;
     int s_direct2indirect;
     int s_indirect2direct;
+	/* set up when it's ok for reiserfs_read_inode2() to read from
+	   disk inode with nlink==0. Currently this is only used during
+	   finish_unfinished() processing at mount time */
+    int s_is_unlinked_ok;
     reiserfs_proc_info_data_t s_proc_info_data;
     struct proc_dir_entry *procdir;
 };