On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 07:19:35PM +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > On 01.08.2018 19:16, Al Viro wrote: > > 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. OK, I see what's going on there. See if this fixes the problem: diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 0e8e5de3c48a..b11f566bcd66 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1892,7 +1892,7 @@ void d_instantiate_new(struct dentry *entry, struct inode *inode) spin_lock(&inode->i_lock); __d_instantiate(entry, inode); WARN_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_NEW)); - inode->i_state &= ~I_NEW; + inode->i_state &= ~I_NEW & ~I_CREATING; smp_mb(); wake_up_bit(&inode->i_state, __I_NEW); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
