diff --git a/libutils/FileMap.cpp b/libutils/FileMap.cpp
index 0af066f..91e45d8 100644
--- a/libutils/FileMap.cpp
+++ b/libutils/FileMap.cpp
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
 
 // Constructor.  Create an empty object.
 FileMap::FileMap(void)
-    : mRefCount(1), mFileName(NULL), mBasePtr(NULL), mBaseLength(0),
+    : mFileName(NULL), mBasePtr(NULL), mBaseLength(0),
       mDataPtr(NULL), mDataLength(0)
 {
 }
@@ -56,11 +56,6 @@
 // Destructor.
 FileMap::~FileMap(void)
 {
-    assert(mRefCount == 0);
-
-    //printf("+++ removing FileMap %p %zu\n", mDataPtr, mDataLength);
-
-    mRefCount = -100;       // help catch double-free
     if (mFileName != NULL) {
         free(mFileName);
     }
@@ -134,7 +129,6 @@
 
     void* ptr;
 
-    assert(mRefCount == 1);
     assert(fd >= 0);
     assert(offset >= 0);
     assert(length > 0);
diff --git a/libutils/Tokenizer.cpp b/libutils/Tokenizer.cpp
index 7067533..610002f 100644
--- a/libutils/Tokenizer.cpp
+++ b/libutils/Tokenizer.cpp
@@ -43,9 +43,7 @@
 }
 
 Tokenizer::~Tokenizer() {
-    if (mFileMap) {
-        mFileMap->release();
-    }
+    delete mFileMap;
     if (mOwnBuffer) {
         delete[] mBuffer;
     }
@@ -74,7 +72,7 @@
                 fileMap->advise(FileMap::SEQUENTIAL);
                 buffer = static_cast<char*>(fileMap->getDataPtr());
             } else {
-                fileMap->release();
+                delete fileMap;
                 fileMap = NULL;
 
                 // Fall back to reading into a buffer since we can't mmap files in sysfs.