On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:43:35PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > Hi, Al, > > commit 22dc9a1682722fda8603991595528b87e90436f6 > Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Jun 28 15:53:17 2018 -0400 > > new primitive: discard_new_inode() > > from current linux-next introduces the following problem. > It reproduces 100% in my test VM: > > # cat /etc/mtab > /dev/sda1 / ext4 rw 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 > # echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > # cat /etc/mtab > cat: /etc/mtab: Cannot allocate memory Can't reproduce here... Could you post your .config (and toolchain information, for the sake of completeness)?