On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 06:43:56PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > #git status > HEAD detached at 22dc9a168272 Wait a sec - just that commit? With discard_new_inode() not even used anywhere? Then any of those -ENOMEM is disguised ERR_PTR(-ESTALE) from find_inode()/find_inode_fast(), i.e. an inode found by iget5_locked() (your /etc is on ext4) with I_CREATING still set. And that is set only by insert_inode_locked()/insert_inode_locked4(), and only until unlock_new_inode(). Could you slap WARN_ON(1) before these return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE) in find_inode{,_fast}() and see if that's what's getting triggered?