On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 03:16:52PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > Ceph needs to be able to allocate inodes ahead of a create that might > involve a fscrypt-encrypted inode. new_inode() almost fits the bill, > but it puts the inode on the sb->s_inodes list and when we go to hash > it, that might be done again. > > We could work around that by setting I_CREATING on the new inode, but > that causes ilookup5 to return -ESTALE if something tries to find it > before I_NEW is cleared. To work around all of this, just use > new_inode_pseudo which doesn't add it to the list. Er... Why would you _not_ want -ESTALE in that situation?
