Commit 8e33fadf945a ("ext4: remove an unnecessary if statement in __ext4_get_inode_loc()") forget to recheck buffer's uptodate bit again under buffer lock, which may overwrite the buffer if someone else have already brought it uptodate and changed it. Fixes: 8e33fadf945a ("ext4: remove an unnecessary if statement in __ext4_get_inode_loc()") Signed-off-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index d18852d6029c..236adc647eb0 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4340,6 +4340,12 @@ static int __ext4_get_inode_loc(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino, goto has_buffer; lock_buffer(bh); + if (ext4_buffer_uptodate(bh)) { + /* Someone brought it uptodate while we waited */ + unlock_buffer(bh); + goto has_buffer; + } + /* * If we have all information of the inode in memory and this * is the only valid inode in the block, we need not read the -- 2.31.1