diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 20e5c4509a43896255af91cc4a50a50426069828..47b7a20d45eb56e1d0c4f09bc47cad509e36f46e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/idr.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/bitops.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
 #include "internal.h"
@@ -29,6 +30,8 @@ static ssize_t proc_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
 			       size_t count, loff_t *ppos);
 static loff_t proc_file_lseek(struct file *, loff_t, int);
 
+DEFINE_SPINLOCK(proc_subdir_lock);
+
 int proc_match(int len, const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *de)
 {
 	if (de->namelen != len)
@@ -277,7 +280,9 @@ static int xlate_proc_name(const char *name,
 	const char     		*cp = name, *next;
 	struct proc_dir_entry	*de;
 	int			len;
+	int 			rtn = 0;
 
+	spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	de = &proc_root;
 	while (1) {
 		next = strchr(cp, '/');
@@ -289,13 +294,17 @@ static int xlate_proc_name(const char *name,
 			if (proc_match(len, cp, de))
 				break;
 		}
-		if (!de)
-			return -ENOENT;
+		if (!de) {
+			rtn = -ENOENT;
+			goto out;
+		}
 		cp += len + 1;
 	}
 	*residual = cp;
 	*ret = de;
-	return 0;
+out:
+	spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
+	return rtn;
 }
 
 static DEFINE_IDR(proc_inum_idr);
@@ -380,6 +389,7 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nam
 	int error = -ENOENT;
 
 	lock_kernel();
+	spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	de = PDE(dir);
 	if (de) {
 		for (de = de->subdir; de ; de = de->next) {
@@ -388,12 +398,15 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode * dir, struct dentry *dentry, struct nam
 			if (!memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, de->name, de->namelen)) {
 				unsigned int ino = de->low_ino;
 
+				spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 				error = -EINVAL;
 				inode = proc_get_inode(dir->i_sb, ino, de);
+				spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 				break;
 			}
 		}
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	unlock_kernel();
 
 	if (inode) {
@@ -447,11 +460,13 @@ int proc_readdir(struct file * filp,
 			filp->f_pos++;
 			/* fall through */
 		default:
+			spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 			de = de->subdir;
 			i -= 2;
 			for (;;) {
 				if (!de) {
 					ret = 1;
+					spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 					goto out;
 				}
 				if (!i)
@@ -461,12 +476,16 @@ int proc_readdir(struct file * filp,
 			}
 
 			do {
+				/* filldir passes info to user space */
+				spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 				if (filldir(dirent, de->name, de->namelen, filp->f_pos,
 					    de->low_ino, de->mode >> 12) < 0)
 					goto out;
+				spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 				filp->f_pos++;
 				de = de->next;
 			} while (de);
+			spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	}
 	ret = 1;
 out:	unlock_kernel();
@@ -500,9 +519,13 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
 	if (i == 0)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 	dp->low_ino = i;
+
+	spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	dp->next = dir->subdir;
 	dp->parent = dir;
 	dir->subdir = dp;
+	spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
+
 	if (S_ISDIR(dp->mode)) {
 		if (dp->proc_iops == NULL) {
 			dp->proc_fops = &proc_dir_operations;
@@ -694,6 +717,8 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
 	if (!parent && xlate_proc_name(name, &parent, &fn) != 0)
 		goto out;
 	len = strlen(fn);
+
+	spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 	for (p = &parent->subdir; *p; p=&(*p)->next ) {
 		if (!proc_match(len, fn, *p))
 			continue;
@@ -714,6 +739,7 @@ void remove_proc_entry(const char *name, struct proc_dir_entry *parent)
 		}
 		break;
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 out:
 	return;
 }
diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
index 9bdd077d6f55a020f06e43d93a5f7540b214b523..596b4b4f1cc8d1b97188d27deee5717e5dc7972e 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_devtree.c
@@ -136,9 +136,11 @@ void proc_device_tree_add_node(struct device_node *np,
 		 * properties are quite unimportant for us though, thus we
 		 * simply "skip" them here, but we do have to check.
 		 */
+		spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 		for (ent = de->subdir; ent != NULL; ent = ent->next)
 			if (!strcmp(ent->name, pp->name))
 				break;
+		spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
 		if (ent != NULL) {
 			printk(KERN_WARNING "device-tree: property \"%s\" name"
 			       " conflicts with node in %s\n", pp->name,
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index aa6322d4519828c4598cbab4c07116a2a615c385..6b12b0f661b475ee8953e67cbb13acd05179e6e7 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <asm/atomic.h>
 
 /*
@@ -92,6 +93,8 @@ extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_bus;
 extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_root_driver;
 extern struct proc_dir_entry *proc_root_kcore;
 
+extern spinlock_t proc_subdir_lock;
+
 extern void proc_root_init(void);
 extern void proc_misc_init(void);