On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:11:51PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 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.
iget_locked(), that is.
> 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?
