On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:34:08PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > 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); It fixes the issue. Results: https://bugs.linaro.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3957#c10 Tested-by: Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@xxxxxxxxxx> Thank you!
