On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 02:43:12PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote: > Hi Christoph and Al Viro, > > Linux next 20190904 boot PASS now. > May i know which patch fixed this problem ? commit 84a2bd39405ffd5fa6d6d77e408c5b9210da98de Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 16 21:20:17 2019 -0400 fs/namei.c: keep track of nd->root refcount status And I'm not going to abstain from folding the trivial fix (LOOKUP_ROOT_GRABBED had been given the same value as LOOKUP_EMPTY) into the commit. Sorry. I don't know how to tell CI systems out there about cases like that ("earlier version of this commit used to have a bug, fix folded in"). Something like Supersedes: <list of sha1> might or might not be useful for tracking; not sure.