If the ea_inode has been pushed out of the inode cache while there is still a reference in the mb_cache, the lockdep subclass will not be set on the inode, which can lead to some lockdep false positives. Fixes: 33d201e0277b ("xt4: fix lockdep warning about recursive inode locking") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: syzbot+d4b971e744b1f5439336@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index a27208129a80..ff7ab63c5b4f 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1539,6 +1539,7 @@ ext4_xattr_inode_cache_find(struct inode *inode, const void *value, EXT4_IGET_EA_INODE); if (IS_ERR(ea_inode)) goto next_entry; + ext4_xattr_inode_set_class(ea_inode); if (i_size_read(ea_inode) == value_len && !ext4_xattr_inode_read(ea_inode, ea_data, value_len) && !ext4_xattr_inode_verify_hashes(ea_inode, NULL, ea_data, -- 2.31.0