There is no need to do a ceph_pool_perm_check() on anything that isn't a regular file, as the MDS is what handles talking to the OSD in those cases. Just return 0 if it's not a regular file. Reported-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/addr.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ceph/addr.c b/fs/ceph/addr.c index d26a88aca014..07cbf21099b8 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/addr.c +++ b/fs/ceph/addr.c @@ -1940,6 +1940,10 @@ int ceph_pool_perm_check(struct inode *inode, int need) s64 pool; int ret, flags; + /* Only need to do this for regular files */ + if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) + return 0; + if (ci->i_vino.snap != CEPH_NOSNAP) { /* * Pool permission check needs to write to the first object. -- 2.30.2