Oh, and here you accidentally fix the problem I pointed out about patch 11, as you move the code: On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:54 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > + if (unlikely(!*inode)) > + return -ENOENT; Correct test added. > - if (unlikely(!inode)) > - return -ENOENT; Incorrect test removed. And again, maybe I'm misreading the patch. But it does look like it's wrong in the middle of the series, which would make bisection if there's some related bug "interesting". Linus