diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 53df8260c65e..eb67648eb519 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 8381b5e88a19b780f19fc52b7dd67f2b05d07dca
+refs/heads/master: ce597919361dcec97341151690e780eade2a9cf4
diff --git a/trunk/fs/sysfs/file.c b/trunk/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 62f4fb37789e..00012e31829d 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -493,6 +493,12 @@ int sysfs_attr_ns(struct kobject *kobj, const struct attribute *attr,
 	const void *ns = NULL;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!dir_sd) {
+		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "sysfs: kobject %s without dirent\n",
+			kobject_name(kobj));
+		return -ENOENT;
+	}
+
 	err = 0;
 	if (!sysfs_ns_type(dir_sd))
 		goto out;
diff --git a/trunk/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/trunk/fs/sysfs/inode.c
index 4a802b4a9056..85eb81683a29 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/sysfs/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/sysfs/inode.c
@@ -318,8 +318,11 @@ int sysfs_hash_and_remove(struct sysfs_dirent *dir_sd, const void *ns, const cha
 	struct sysfs_addrm_cxt acxt;
 	struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
 
-	if (!dir_sd)
+	if (!dir_sd) {
+		WARN(1, KERN_WARNING "sysfs: can not remove '%s', no directory\n",
+			name);
 		return -ENOENT;
+	}
 
 	sysfs_addrm_start(&acxt, dir_sd);